All around the water tank waiting for a train
A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman gave him a line of talk
He said if you've got money boy I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show
Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door

He put me off in Texas a state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars up above
Nobody seems to want me or to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land
Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home just a waiting for a train

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Jimmie Rodgers's song "Waiting for a Train" paint a vivid picture of a drifter's journey, with imagery and storytelling that beautifully convey a sense of loneliness, longing, and resilience.

The first verse sets the scene of the drifter waiting for a train, huddled around a water tank a thousand miles away from home, sleeping in the rain. He approaches a brakeman, hoping to hitch a ride, but is turned away because he has no money. The rejection is harsh and final, punctuated by the slam of the boxcar door. The second verse finds him stranded in Texas, with no one willing to offer him help or companionship. Despite the pain and hardship of the journey, he remains determined to reach his destination in Dixie Land, his heart full of pain but his spirit unbroken.

The lyrics are a powerful expression of the human desire to belong and to find a place to call home. The drifter's journey is a metaphor for the struggles we all face in life, as we try to navigate the complexities of the world and find our place in it. The song also speaks to the power of music as a source of comfort and solace, with its haunting melody and poignant lyrics conveying a sense of empathy and understanding for anyone who has ever felt lost or alone.

Line by Line Meaning

All around the water tank waiting for a train
I am waiting near the water source for the arrival of the train.

A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I am very far from my home, sleeping in the rain.

I walked up to a brakeman gave him a line of talk
I approached a worker on the train and tried to convince him to help me.

He said if you’ve got money boy I'll see that you don't walk
The worker offered to help me if I had money to pay for my journey.

I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show
I have no money to pay for the train journey.

Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door
The worker refused to help me and kicked me off the train.

He put me off in Texas a state I dearly love
The worker kicked me off the train in the state of Texas, which I enjoy being in.

The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars up above
I am surrounded by the vast open spaces of the outdoors and can see the moon and stars in the sky.

Nobody seems to want me or to lend me a helping hand
I feel like no one wants to help me or offer me assistance.

I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land
I am traveling from San Francisco to Southern parts of the United States.

Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain
Even though I have no money and I feel emotional pain.

I'm a thousand miles away from home just a waiting for a train
I am very far from my home and am waiting for a train to come.

Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
Written by: JIMMIE RODGERS

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Comments from YouTube:

@cindysherf8818

2y↑11

This is the father of country music plain and simple

@christopheranderson601

Hello Cindy, How are you doing?

@Tob1Kadach1

1y↑3

Disputed by some but I do agree, he may not of founded country but he was it's 1st star

@lmt7864

6y↑10

I can see my Dad sitting at the table singing along with Jimmy Rodger particularly Waiting for a Train, it’s something that has stayed with me. I just love it. What an incredible talent Jimmy was. So many memories of my Dad who was so full of emotion and love he played all the old country artists music but Jimmy was his favourite.

@holleefielder4100

6y↑1

Oh what a precious memory of your Daddy. I miss mine so much, too. My Daddy would sing Hank Williams Sr. I thought he was singing about my Momma....and it made me sad for him and mad at Momma for treating him so mean.

@adalbertotrevor6461

@@holleefielder4100 hi there!

@jerlan23

13y↑126

I almost can't hear this without crying for my Dad. He was one of the millions of men who rode the freight trains looking for work during the Great Depression. Many a time he was far from home, starving, and broken hearted. He once ate magpie eggs to survive. This could be a biography of him during that time. Thank you, Jimmie Rodgers. And thank you, psteve, for posting.

@tommyo8967

32w

Gandy dancers

@Themaintrain

16y↑9

I'm from Meridian, MS. I noticed none of the comments mention the Jimmie Rogders Memorial Festival they hold in the spring each year. I've seen almost everyone in country music playing there. I've seen Willie, Waylon, Hank Jr, Conway, and all the greats! They come to pay tribute to the Father of Country Music!

@Lance-Stroll

4y↑247

0 voice lessons. 0 sound effects. 100% talent

@chord8806

3y↑8

Indeed

@carmenhardy2629

2y↑3

He sure had perfect pitch.

@patriciajrs46

2y↑4

Such beautiful voice. I love his guitar, too. His yodeling didn't hurt either.
Thanks for the upload.

@32a34a

1y↑3

@@patriciajrs46 Nor did the train whistle coming from his soul.

@nozecone

1y↑3

"O sound effects"? Didn't you hear that lonesome whistle blow?

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@ATSF1927

11y↑230

I remember Jimmie, he past away when I was 6 years old in 1933. My parents and all my brothers and sisters and me loved listening to him.

@overratedprogrammer

4y↑10

How often would you listen to music back then? I'm young and just curious since I listen to music a lot but it is a lot easier nowadays

@lassejohaneira9641

3y↑11

@@overratedprogrammer hes probly dead, was born in `27

@jennietidwell4981

3y↑5

My dad sang this when I was a child, I just happened to remember it this morning.

@jennietidwell4981

3y↑3

@@lassejohaneira9641 my dad was stationed at the navy base Alameda in san fransisco.

@jennietidwell4981

3y↑5

My dad use to sing it, when I was a child. I just happen to remember some of the words and googled it, this morn, seems to me he use to call him little jimmy rodgers.

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@MikeBlitzMag

14y↑32

That a high quality video clip of the great Jimmie Rodgers has survived is nothing short of answered prayer. Absolutely phenomenal and indispensible.

@linnfairchild229

46w↑3

I'm 40. Jimmie is a legend!!
🎸🎶🎶😁♥️

@townnerd1

11y↑29

i was left some Jimmy Rogers records (about 10 of them) when my Grandfather passed. I remember him telling me that they were coming my way when he died. I crank them once in a while, Great music!

@robinbobbin75155

2y↑2

What an amazing inheritance!

@bzzzzap

11y↑109

Every child should be taught about Jimmie Rodgers.

@kidorce

4y↑2

@Nishan B same

@maxy2975

4y↑1

Nah

@ShadowCry1558

4y↑2

@Nishan B Same Here!

@BAGOTCORNER

3y↑1

Why ?

@loganmai1812

3y↑2

I’m teaching myself, very happy I am

@lewismacfadyen5657

3y↑206

I’m 17 and love this, we’re not all bad

@Avocado7765

3y↑10

@fishin9157

3y↑10

@armand-san9441

2y↑6

18 from swisszerland 😍

@tise2277

2y↑4

@Vanasse1

2y↑5

That’s awesome, hun.

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@cfpianoman

17y↑4

I just lost my mother recently. She and I would listen to Jimmie Rodgers, and the tribute album that Merle Haggard did on Jimmie Rodgers when I was a child. "Waiting For a Train" brought her back to me for a moment tonight. I thank you.

@gb2115

2y↑33

So pure. The lines about Texas make me tear up.

It’s his gratitude in the simple things that sustain him despite his misfortune.

Simple lyrics but the theme cuts so deep. Perhaps one can only understand it after living for a while.

@IhateGary

16y↑5

Man, the woman next to him probably lived through the Civil War. Rodgers is an Icon - love this!

@adolpholiverbush2

10y↑210

The original country badass.
Grew up hearing my grandad sing these songs.

@Remembering-rq6si

6y↑3

We're all impressed with your middle-school profanity. Now, are you happy?

@da324

5y↑4

@@Remembering-rq6si Badass is profanity? Are you happy whining about insignificant shit?

@patriciaoreilly8907

Lol

@w6p7a

Remembering 1992, what is it that you are remembering about 1992?

@kevinmac1989

My grandfathers yodel sounded just the same.

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@fr33k3r

13y↑8

How can 15 ppl not like Jimmie Rodgers? I just wish I could be alive back then to see them perform...Amazing !!!

@rodgermac

16y↑2

As a boy growing up in the fifties, I heard this stuff all the time. LOVE IT!!!!! I just wish I wasn't such a slug on this computer, so I could put it on a disc so my Dad could see it. I can atleast put it on my favorite list. Thanks.

@overratedprogrammer

I could've helped you but unfortunately I'm seeing this 12 years later. Hope your dad saw it

@lauramickey9789

6y↑8

My daddy used to sing this to us kids when we were young. When I played it just now, my dad's voice and jimmies merged in my mind.

@trevoradalberto5588

Hi there!

@twinPaula12

14y↑10

This is the first time I knew Jimmie blew the train whistle himself here. I have always loved all of his music and his guitar playing is quite unique. The guitar sounds beautiful. It's wonderful that Jimmie got to live his life the way he wanted. Entertaining and also working on the railroad with his father sounds like an interesting life though a short one. He was one of the greatest talents - true blues sung like no one else. Thank you for posting this. - Paula

@playitstrange129

It was his brother he worked with. Not his father.

@gareof

16y↑3

american music owes a ton to j.r. so glad music history is found here on you tube - everything from folk / country to jazz / rock / r & b / and the big bands / thanks for posting this one

@breastlady

15y↑2

Absolutely priceless! My Grandpa used to hold me on his lap and sing these songs to me. I just became a Grandma 7 days ago for the first time. I thought I should brush up on Grandma school and get these songs down. Such dear memories they hold for me. I had to go find a Kleenex box. My Grandpa was a wonderful bunch of fun.

@richardmartinez5938

2y↑1

My dad born in 1908 liked this man.

@holleefielder4100

6y↑6

Wow! What an influential musician, and prolific. 100 Songs written by him within a very short time frame. Roots music is the foundation of all other genres. Americans in general do not appreciate our Roots music. Mr. Rodgers left us quite an impressive catalog and seeing him here in person as it were is very cool. He died so young. Thank you for posting this amazing singer/song writer.

@joehuddleston8671

3y↑4

This man almost is responsible for what getting Country Music so popular is his best ever feat. Yodeling like no other combined with down to earth country singing. Thank you Jimmy for ever in our hearts and mine gathering more country music and bring to popularity. Joehuddleston10

@Dallas-Nyberg

13y↑25

Love his pick and strum style - he was an absolute legend

@beardedyodeler

16y↑6

Jimmie Rodgers was one cool customer. His songs are timeless and his yodeling is hard to beat. The stories he tells in his songs are absolutely amazing. I need my name in my guitar like he has.

@robinbobbin75155

12y↑53

I love Jimmie Rodgers. My Dad & I were always amazed at how he did the train whistle.

@trevoradalberto5588

4y↑1

Hi there!

@christopherbrian8638

Hi 👋

@jerrysharp4501

My mothers family name is Barry

@skellywager

17y↑3

im 19 and i love jimmie rodgers, got his record off my neighbours recently cant stop listening to it, try and tell my friends about him but no one gives him a second which is a shame really.would have loved to have lived through his time music now is over produced and its only about image now and musical originality is non existnt at the moment.

@overratedprogrammer

I was about to say I'm 19 too but then I saw that this was posted 13 years ago. Hard to believe a 19 year old that commented on this video is 32 now. It's hard to imagine that much time going by

@skellywager

4y↑1

@@overratedprogrammer Jimmie Rodgers made me lose it. Stay away, listened to him all the time and after a binge I went out on the street and crushed a dogs head in with my hands. I knew I was ready then to try a man. Been in prison since.

@overratedprogrammer

@@skellywager lmao what

@horarwgt

15y↑3

This footage is from the 1929 Columbia short "The Singing Brakeman," in which Jimmie sang "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home" and "T for Texas", all his own compositions. This film was his ONLY motion picture appearance. Rodgers died of TB in 1935 at the age of 33.

@banjodonnie

12y↑11

At 82 I obviously had heard of Jimmie Rodgers, but could not recall hearing him. So, I decided to search for his music. Fantastic! What a great performer and what wonderful songs and records. His works should be kept before the public so that young people can hear real talent. GX Hillbilly

@reno145

16y↑2

Meridian, Mississippi. Two of the greatest things in America came from there: Jimmie and Peavey Electronics!

@emtube9298

18y↑2

How great to have this momento of this seminal singer and of a byegone age. Thanks for sharing!

@charlesjenkins615

11w

My dad rest his soul.dearly Loved
Jimmy Rogers he played all those old songs.like waiting for a train &tea for Texas brings back old memories good stuff 😊👏👍

@isaiah434ruby

15y

My father was an avid Jimmy Rodgers fan. We drove to Texas in 1957, I filmed dad holding Jimmy's guitar, when we met his wife Carrie. That smile was great. We met Jim Evans, president of the Jimmy Rodgers fan club, Lubbock, Tx. He showed us this fim on a 16 mm projector. Wow! Dad would put a record on the phonograph and see if I could name the song before words were begun. This brings back a lot of memories. Never dreamed of seeing it again.

@adalbertotrevor6461

Hi there!

@glennjohnson8170

6y↑1

Glenn Johnson Probably one of my favourite country songs of all time and how wonderful that Jimmie made the short film that included this performance.Love the old country and WESTERN songs.Thanks for uploading this!!

@bookworm1962

14y↑1

my grandpa used to play this stuff on his fiddle, and sing and yodel too - I just love it!

@adalbertotrevor6461

Hi there!

@aboutyabalmuanabi3103

7y↑56

James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 – May 26, 1933) was an American country singer in the early 20th century, known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"

@workingguy6666

3y↑4

Thank you for adding this. I had no idea he was inducted to both the country music and rock & roll hall of fames. Incredible.

@deewesthill1213

33w

@@workingguy6666 Why would Jimmie Rodgers be in the rock and roll hall of fame, since that style of music didn't appear until 20 years after his death?!

@melodyplayer

17y↑2

my father sang this song and played the guitar just like Jimmie Rogers...great preservation!!!

@zerbinettabelling5135

7y↑2

Amazing and talented. So glad it's not lost for future generations. Thanks to everyone trying to preserve all these golden oldies

@BeadStallcup

14y↑1

The father of the old train songs. Great singer!

@kuelexx

14y

I wish Jimmie Rogers was here today to hear country songs with "ba-donk-a-donk". I am only 25, but Jimmie Rogers is still the king of country. Him and Johnny Cash

@jimcarter1551

3y↑2

I love this song and the rest that he did. I sung this song to my grandson when he was a baby and he asked me to sing it to him just before he went to bed tonight,he's 6. I showed him the video he said wow. My favorite singer and has been since I was a teenager,I'm 63. I've got a 5CD set of all his recordings.

@Claycat4

16y↑4

My father used to sing this to me when I was a little girl. He sang it in a much sadder tone, and I would cry and cry! My Dad lived through the depression, and he knew what it was to be hungry!

@richardsouthern4248

5y↑1

I'm big Jimmie Rodgers fan all the way back to when I was a kid. In the original recorded (wax) version of this tune, the trumpet intro is played by Louis Armstrong--who just happened to be in the studio and was invited to participate.

@TimothyBIinks

12y↑60

Damn. This is one of the best things I've ever seen on youtube. We are so lucky to actually have hi-quality footage of Jimmie Rodgers playing music... for so many of his contemporaries (Woody Guthrie, Carter Family, all the early acoustic bluesmen) there's basically nothing.

@tdotgirl85

14y↑9

jimmie rogers reminds me of my father, he used to play all his songs and sing them for me. Brings back great memories, thanks for sharing.

@markmarkofkane8167

5y↑6

Great stuff! My Grandparents probably listened to this. My father may have too. He was born in 1930. Passed on.

@adelechicken6356

11w

I love this, sitting on the porch after supper, Jimmie playing and singing, someone in the kitchen finishing chores and granny darning socks. I can tell what she is doing by her hand movements and the yarn being pulled through the stitches she is anchoring the mend with. I grew up listening to Jimmie's music and my mom taught me how to darn socks. ❤

@paul-young

8y↑138

Well.............Jimmie Rodgers.. in his grave..... still singing.. ... tuberculosis...and ..says omg...... 1.5 million views... he knew someday he'd be known as a legend.. .. You'll never die. Love ya.. Jimmie...Wish you survived till 1952.....or more... ya know??? .. blessings to younger generations...

@drunkredneck6837

7y↑14

I'm 15 now and I love jimmy

@wwevideo12345

6y↑1

Why did you write it like that

@wwevideo12345

6y↑1

Can u please tell me I really want to know.

@treystewart9812

6y↑1

I'm 33 and he's one of my faves!

@treystewart9812

+Billy Murray fan I'll check em out!

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@fredhogaboom9147

2y↑1

This is what country music was meant to be, not the glitz and glam being shown today!

@PhillipCreeper

17y↑3

I first heard him in the 70s and brought all his albums. He was fantastic in his day and still is great. Sing Jimmie! And man could he yodel!

@shaan1suleman

5y↑12

They don’t make music like this no more. The first concert I ever went to. At 107 years old I still love to yodel.

@overratedprogrammer

Troll?

@rescue270

6y↑4

He wrote this song while waiting for a train at the depot in Kerrville, TX. It was the end of the line so the only way the train could go was back down toward San Antonio.
Part of the depot remains as a restaurant now. The railroad and the trains are long gone from Kerrville and the Texas Hill Country, never to return.

@nana13831

9y↑67

Depression time, This was one of my Father's favorite songs. Reflected the status of the unemployed. 1929.

@bobhostetler8548

5y↑8

Oh my my my .my first music hero. I didn't think I'd ever see a video of him

@ronaldlewis6062

5y↑4

Bob Hostetler mine too . My dad sang all Jimmy Rogers tunes and played a Martin gituar he bought in 53 we went to other folks houses ever Saturday night for country music. Ole martins still in the family. Country lives on!!

@bshuler2185

Bob Hostetler ~ yes, so glad my dad was able to see this before he passed, awesome video!

@king_fresh27

Your last name sounds incredibly familiar

@CarolineCollins

11y↑2

This is my America... God bless his widow, Carrie. I hope she was named Caroline. It means Song of Joy :) she wrote and sang a track, in mourning. I too am a recent widow.

@mr.warmth1511

Caroline is my wifes name been married 55 years

@GeorgeVreelandHill

13y↑1

Jimmie Rodgers sure could sing. Country at its best. I love his music. George Vreeland Hill

@jonathanwilkinson1461

6y↑3

Today I went home...and listened to jimmie rodgers in my lunch break..

@certainlyanodd1

6y↑3

Heard about this song a couple of years ago.... not everyone has forgotten! :D

@kevingriffiths4981

11w

Remember my dad singing this and playing his guitar....rest in peace Dad

@alanarmstrong6347

10y↑8

Sang this song since I was 12 years old. Jim Reeves did a good version on his LP Countryside of Jim Reeves. Real talent was what these Old Timers had not like the rubbish that some pedal today as country music!

@allinsondixon8224

Bozz scags did it on a album

@colindominy

15y↑3

Thank the lord, and thank you psteve, that we can get to see this legendary master of country-folk music in action, on modern-day technology like YouTube. And thank god to those who were originally responsible for the movie-footage of JR. It's one thing to be able to listen to an artist's magnificent work on record ; but it's an immensely added-value privilege to be able to see that same artist in action, on film. This clip is just wonderful !!

@jerlan23

11y↑4

A wonderful piece of music history, and of the history of what happened to a lot of men during the Great Depression. My Dad was one of those men, who rode the freight trains around the country, looking for work.

@bdylan147

16y↑3

I... am ... sooo happy that I can die happy now because of this video!!!!!!! This is one of my favorite Jimmie songs ever! Jimmie is a hero to me and my music! I'm a cover this song and put it on the youtube tomorrow!! Thanks for uploading this!!

@Juliemorgana

4y↑12

I never knew till now that Jimmie Rodgers made the train whistle sound with his voice and not with a harmonica!!! I've no idea how a person could do that.

@adalbertotrevor6461

Hi there!

@semoteo3117

5y↑3

country's king

@kalimanbuda6501

3y↑4

Would he have thought that he had been still remembered in 2021 ?

@jeanstyles7999

3y↑1

What would he think of this music that calls themselves country today? I just can't see him liking it.

@kimblers

15y↑2

Years ago I was introduced to Jimmie Rodgers via Merle Haggard and about a decade ago I finally found Jimmie himself on CD. Great stuff.

@SoutheasternOutdoors

3y↑2

Pure country classic. A talent never to be seen again.

@ginarampy604

5y↑2

My granddaddy used to sing his songs. 💕

@lapdawg60

8y↑27

I love that old song, too. Simplicity in all its perfectness.

@Photograph1974

13y↑1

The Father of Country Music. The best of the very best (along with Hank Williams).

@TheFobster

15y↑10

I love this song. It's great how he makes the train whistle at the beginning too. :)

@matthewmarriott8401

4y↑5

The man just loved playing music and he was one of those men with a very unique voice and his own style.i really miss him and his ways
If only he had lived a little longer can you imagine the songs he would have sang

@Starrfortythree

I finally found this song!!! I used to ask my Grandpa to sing it all the time but we always just called it the railway bum song. He must have treated us to this song thousands of times before heading to Heaven.

@mr.warmth1511

7y↑128

the real father of country music and the first video 1928

@holleefielder4100

6y↑10

Hey we need to credit Jimmie with not only inventing country music but also inventing the Music Video. Wonder if his estate could get a little kick-back from MTV

@kevinpage7816

5y↑3

Confirmed

@nathanperry6368

5y↑4

Eck Robertson is the godfather of country music. Country music would be nothing without the fiddle.

@gregoryjclark81

5y↑2

mr. warmth Not to seem overly scrutinizing here, but to ever refer to any artist as a ‘father’ of anything connotes one individual alone creating and establishing a new school to dig. One of the reasons ‘grandfather’ or even ‘godfather’, terms indicating generational time and clearly movements not only taking time to go through a metamorphosis, but that the players involved in an Argos of movement and much more numerous than meets the eye.

I more than concur with your sentiment, but a cat like JR deserves as specific language as possible.

@nathanperry6368

I agree that musical genre's are developed over time and most certainly by more than one man alone. But eck really is the godfather, 'Sallie gooden' is revered as the first country music recording ever, if the man to make the first country music recording in history can't be called the godfather of the genre then you are right, there is no godfather. For the record I love Jimmie and meant no disrespect to his music.

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@gabrielkeown38

3y↑3

One of all time great Absolute genius My hero of country music

@SteelyDanimal

5y↑4

Thinking of my late Grandpa right now. This was his childhood music.

@tunesmith7437

5y↑3

One of the hallmarks of American Folk Music.

@samannaybhuyan9765

7y↑6

This is real music. Old is gold. New songs are garbage.

@holleefielder4100

6y↑1

Preach

@OysterWard

12w

not every new song is garbage. not every old song is gold. you won't find anything new and good on the radio because they only play the top 100.

@carleavesceo709

3y↑3

My father used to play his records . As a young boy I didn't like the sound of the singing. My father is dead and I remain. I now appreciate this music. Mr. Rodgers had given out these beautiful songs. I know what this music meant to Daddy. It now means a lot to me.

@bobertkallahan4392

This man changed everything for country music like ol Woodie changed it all for folk. Hard cut men from this time simply are no longer. Any Footage of them is incredibly important to the history of the genres.

@b26marauderpilot

13y↑11

OMG, how did he imitate a steam engine's whistle at the beginning of the song like that? Amazing!

@hilmarwensorra1215

In very loving memory of Mr. James Charles Rodgers (1897 - 1933 R.I.P. // Gone but NOT forgotten).

@wesstewart3087

5y↑8

A class act for sure! I'd love to have that old Martin !

@lobo5786

4y↑2

I listened to this song and many more with my Dad in the day

@matthewmarriott8401

5y↑1

Guys like him come around once in awhile.dont you wish they would come all the time.man there music I miss.

@bobke114

4y↑2

I grew in the 1960s and my parents played a lot of this. Ray Price as well

@triciaodonnell7026

3y↑1

My Mom and Dad used to sing this back when we were kids

@gregorysullivan9371

9y↑9

Man Jimmie was a beauty, he loved that top E. Thanks!

@ryankelly4108

9y↑156

This is real country.

@honestbutugly

9y↑4

Ryan Kelly got to know that he experimented with tuba's in the band , and did songs with Louie Armstrongng, but not bad for a person who created county music

@Pentagonshark666

7y↑1

how can you call it country?

@bevgutknecht7016

7y↑16

How can you not?

@Erzahler

7y↑3

+Lembit Punapart: Easy. Jimmie Rodgers was the Father of country music. He came before Hank Williams, Sr., before Ernest Tubb, before everyone.

@Pentagonshark666

7y↑1

But his music dosn't sound like Country.

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@johnnyhuis

11y↑1

The true "FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC"!

@papawx3

18y↑1

Perhaps one of the first music "videos". I buried my grandmother last month {95yrs of age} she was his biggest fan. There can't be very many of the original fans left.

@SteelyDanimal

5y↑2

Jimmie, he ain’t dead, he’s been a long time gone.

@ctmale1956

14y

A classic.......wonderful. This film is from the stone ages and it is a classic!

@Tonetwisters

5y↑11

Even back then, collecting the first class Martins ... And wow. What a great song and performance.

@doctorgarbonzo2525

7y↑4

Jimmy & The Carters are credited as the true innovators of Country Music

@archergoddess5664

6y↑1

Doctor Garbonzo no blacks are stop lying to these people lol

@lethayle3388

@@archergoddess5664 YYou can dig it up yourself. Jimmie rodgers invented country

@Photograph1974

5y↑5

Two states claim Jimmie Rodgers as a native son. Jimmie was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame with Geiger, Alabama, listed as his place of birth. Jimmie was inducted into the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Hall of Fame with (Pine Springs) Meridian, Mississippi, listed as his place of birth.

@Tob1Kadach1

So lucky this footage was saved and can be enjoyed almost 94 years later. Really got in to country in my 20's but have at the age of 30 only recently discovered Jimmie Rodgers. Naturally I went out and bought a Boxset of pretty much all his songs. The original country star, and to think he was suffering from TB from 1925 until he died in 1933 and kept making & recording music for 6 years 1927-1933. Boggles my mind to that Jimmie died when future country legend Hank Williams was only 10 years old. He was a huge insperation not only to Country legends such as Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard & Hank Snow (who even named his son after him), but also to Blues legends ike Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf (who said Jimmie was his childhood idol).

@xMakeAJoyfulSound16x

12y↑2

bah, i love this song. My daddy showed it to me the other day, and i'm learning it by ear on the guitar♥ Apparently, my grandpa played this ALL the time. So, tribute to my grandpa♥ Gotta love oldies.

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