Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

:For the singer of "Honeycomb", see Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer).

Quotations

:T for Texas, T for Tennessee,

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:T for Texas, T for Tennessee,

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:T for Thelma, that gal made a wreck out of me.

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:Gonna buy me a pistol, long as I am tall,

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:Buy me a pistol, long as I am tall,

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:Gonna shoot po' Thelma, just to see her jump and fall.

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::?"Blue Yodel"

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:I'll tell you a story 'bout Jimmie the Kid

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:He's a brakeman you all know

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:He was born in Mississippi way down south

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:And he flagged on the T&NO

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:He yodelled to fame on the Boston Maine, the Wabash and the TP

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:From the old Grand Trunk and the Cotton Belt, he yodelled on the Santa Fee

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::?"Jimmie the Kid" (the lyrics name 16 railroads in all)

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