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The Golden Rocket
From old Montana down to Alabam’ larence Eugene “Hank” Snow (May 9, 1914 –
I’ve been before and I’ll travel again CDecember 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American
You triflin’ women can’t keep a good man down country music artist. Most popular in the 1950s, he
You dealt the cards but you missed a play had a career that spanned more than 50 years, he
so hit the road and be on your way recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85
Goin’ board the Golden Rocket and leave this town singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950
until 1980. His number-one hits include the
I was a good engine a runnin’ on time self-penned songs “I’m Moving On”, “The Golden
but baby I’m switchin’ to another line Rocket” and The Rhumba Boogie and famous
So honey never hang your signal out for me versions of “I Don’t Hurt Anymore”, “Let Me Go,
I’m tired of runnin’ on the same old track Lover!”, “I’ve Been Everywhere”, “Hello Love”, as well
Bought a one way ticket and I won’t be back as other top 10 hits.
This Golden Rocket’s gonna roll my blues away Snow was an accomplished songwriter whose clear,
Hear that lonesome whistle blow baritone voice expressed a wide range of emotions
that’s your cue and by now you know including the joys of freedom and travel as well as
That I got another true lover waitin’ in Tennessee the anguish of tortured love. His music was rooted
This midnight special is a burnin’ the rail in his beginnings in small-town Nova Scotia where,
so woman don’t try to follow my trail as a frail, 80-pound youngster, he endured extreme
poverty, beatings and psychological abuse as well as
This Golden Rocket’s gonna blow my blues away physically punishing labour during the Great
Hear her thunder on through the night Depression. Through it all, his musically talented
this Golden Rocket is a doin’ me right mother provided the emotional support he needed to
And that sunny old southland sure is a part of me pursue his dream of becoming a famous entertainer
Now from your call board erase my name like his idol, the country star, Jimmie Rodgers.
your fire went out you done lost your flame
As a performer of traditional Country music, Snow
And this Golden Rocket is rollin’ my blues away won numerous awards and is a member of the
That old conductor he seemed to know Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country
you done me wrong I was feelin’ low Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of
For he yelled aloud we’re over that Dixon Line Fame. The Hank Snow Museum in Liverpool, Nova
The brakeman started singin’ a song Scotia, celebrates his life and work in a province
said you’re worried now but it won’t be long where his fans still see him as an inspirational figure
who triumphed over personal adversity to become
This Golden Rocket is leavin’ your blues behind one of the most influential artists in all of country
Then the porter yelled with his southern drawl music.
let’s rise and shine good mornin’ ya all
And I sprang to my feet to greet the new born day In 1996, Snow began experiencing respiratory
When I kissed my baby in the station door problems which forced him to retire from
the whistle blew like it never before performing. He died three years later at 12:30am on
Of the Golden Rocket that rolled my blues away December 20, 1999, from heart failure at his
Rainbow Ranch in Madison, Tennessee, and was
Source: LyricFind interred in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville,
Songwriters: Hank Snow Tennessee.
The Golden Rocket lyrics © Warner Chappell Music,
Inc Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Ashley
MacIsaac, Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris, among
To listen follow this link.... others, have covered his music. (Source Wikipedia)
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