[Dixielandjazz] Mamie's blues

[Joe Carbery]

I always understood that they referred to the time of departure and
arrival. The 2:17 would spend two minutes in the station and then depart at
2:19.

Joe Carbery.


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anton Crouch
<anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au>wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I imagine that, like me, many people know the Jelly Roll Morton recordings
> of "Mamie's blues". The first stanza is
>
> Two nineteen done took my baby away (2)
> Two seventeen bring her back someday
>
> The reference is to trains and I had always thought that "two nineteen"
> and "two seventeen" referred to train route numbers (1919 and 1717). I
> still do but my belief was thrown into doubt when I attended the funeral of
> an old friend last week.
>
> One of the pieces of music played was the February 1926 Chippie Hill/Louis
> Armstrong recording of the Richard M Jones composition "Trouble in mind".
> This has a verse referring to the "two nineteen train". My friend's widow
> was moved by this wonderful performance and asked me if I could transcribe
> the words for her. Straight-forward, I thought - there'll be internet sites
> which have the words. There are - but all the ones I've located have "two
> nineteen" written as "2:19". To me, this implies that the reference is to a
> timetable (nineteen minutes past two o'clock), not a train route number.
>
> Have I been wrong all the time? If not, does anyone know what the "two
> nineteen" and "two seventeen" routes were?
>
> Troubled in mind,
> Anton
>
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