Letras de Canciones de Johnny Cash
Orange Blossom Special

[Instrument that sounds like a train whistle.]

Woo-woo!

Look a-yonder comin',
Comin' down that railroad track,
Hey, look a-yonder comin',
Comin' down that railroad track,
It's the Orange Blossom Special.
Bringin' my baby back.
Whoo.
Whoo-woo!

[Instrumental break featuring harmonica.]

Whoo, whoo-whoo-woo.
Well, I'm goin' down to Florida,
And get some sand in my shoes.
Or maybe Californy,
And get some sand in my shoes.
I'll ride that Orange Blossom Special,
And lose these New York blues.
Whoa-whoa!

[Instrumental break.]

[Man:]
"Say man, when you goin' back to Florida?"

[Cash:]
"When am I goin' back to Florida? I don't know, don't reckon I ever will."
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[Man:]
"Ain't you worried about gettin' your nourishment in New York?"

[Cash:]
"Well, I don't care if I do-die-do-die-do-die-do-die-do-die."

Hey, talk about a-ramblin',
She's the fastest train on the line.
Talk about a-travellin',
She's the fastest train on the line.
It's that Orange Blossom Special,
Rollin' down the seaboard line.
Whoo-woo!



[ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL]
[Written by: Ervin T. Rouse [1]
Performed by: Johnny Cash
Albums: Orange Blossom Special-1965 & 2002, I Walk The Line-2004,
The Essential Johnny Cash-1992 & 2002, The Unauthorized
Biography-2007, et al.]

[1] Ervin T. Rouse wrote this song (c. 1938), inspired by the railway
train called the Orange Blossom Special's christening and inaugural
run (from Miami to New York). Co-authorship is often credited to Florida
fiddler, Robert Russell “Chubby” Wise (1916-1996), although the copyright
is in Rouse’s name, supposedly due to Wise’s assertion that ‘there was no
money in fiddle tunes and that Rouse could copyright it himself, for all
the good it would do’ (Wise drove a cab at the time). Wise himself
maintained that he and Rouse were at the Jacksonville Seaboard Railroad
Station when the train came through on its maiden run from Miami. Rouse
suggested that they write a tune and Chubby agreed. The two went back to
Wise’s house and wrote the piece in forty-five minutes, while his wife
cooked them breakfast. The tune was recorded by Ervin and his brother
Gordon in New York in June, 1939, but the tune did not become a hit until
Bill Monroe’s recording of it in 1942 (with Art Wooten on fiddle).]