Casey jones grateful dead3/31/2023 A7 D7 G7 C And you know that notion just crossed my mind. C D This old engine makes it on time F G Leaves central station at a quarter to nine C D Hits River Junction at seventeen to, F E7 Am G7 At a quarter to ten you know it?s travelin? again Chorus C C# D Trouble ahead, a lady in red F G Take my advice you?d be better off dead C F Switch man sleepin?, train a hundred and two F E7 Am G7 Is on the wrong track and headed for you Chorus Solo Tabulature (Follow verse 1 form) Trouble with you is the trouble with me, Got two good eyes but we still don?t see Come ?round the bend you know it?s the end ?Cause the fireman screams and the engine just gleams Repeat Chorus with original chords any number of times C Bb F Drivin? that train, high on cocaine, C Casey Jones you?d better watch your speed Bb F Trouble ahead, trouble behind C And you know that notion just crossed my mind. The Dead first performed “Casey Jones” on Jat the Fillmore East in New York.C F Drivin? that train, high on cocaine, C Casey Jones you?d better watch your speed F Trouble ahead, trouble behind C And you know that notion just crossed my mind. By 1909 the song had swept the country as a popular hit, retaining so many folk song touches that folk singers have since then created scores of variants and parodies based on the Newton-Seibert ballad. Casey Jones The Grateful Dead Track 8 on Workingman’s Dead The Dead’s take on the legend of John Luther Casey Jones, from Cayce, Kentucky, who did indeed leave Memphis Central. C F Trouble ahead, trouble behind, F C And you know that notion just crossed my mind. The group would go on to perform ‘I Need A Miracle’ and ‘Good Lovin from their upcoming record Shakedown Street but nothing hit as hard as ‘Casey Jones’ right out the gate. Chorus C F Driving that train, high on cocaine, F C Casey Jones you better watch your speed. According to Elliot Shapiro (one of the pundits of popular song), Seibert “undoubtedly heard” ‘Been on the Chilly So Long.’ He wrote a sketch about the brave engineer and incorporated it into his act.“ Along with a ragtime piano player, Eddie Walter Newton, he turned out a ragtime ballad about Casey, set him up as the main "hogger” on a Western railroad line, and published the song themselves in the Southern California Music Company. The song, ‘Casey Jones’ is one of the band’s most cherished and is taken from the 1970 seminal album Workingman’s Dead. Tallifero Lawrence Seibert toured the vaudeville circuit in a five-character act. Casey Jones - Grateful Dead This old engine makes it on time Leaves Central Station at a quarter to nine Hits River Junction at seventeen to at a quarter to. ![]() The Casey Jones ballad familiar to most Americans, sprang from Wallace Saunders' song by way, curiously, of the vaudeville stage. It’s been pointed out that, among the band’s potential top-40 hits, Casey Jones joins others like Uncle John’s Band, with its airplay-unfriendly Goddam, well I declare, and Truckin’, with the living on reds and vitamin C and cocaine line, as yet another potential hit that would never be allowed on the radio. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. ![]() The front and back feature different images of the Casey Jones locomotive along with the dancing. ![]() The original song memoralizing Casey Jones was written a few days after the accident by Jone’s friend Wallace Saunders, An African-American engine wiper. Grateful Dead - Casey Jones (2020 Remaster) Official Audio Grateful Dead 383K subscribers Subscribe 6. A new Grateful Dead Tie Dye that comes from Liquid Blue. This “Casey Jones” was different, however, because it also dipped into the folk tradition of cocaine songs, making it a warning to Casey and the world to “watch your speed.” ![]() The Dead’s take on the legend of John Luther “Casey” Jones, from Cayce, Kentucky, who did indeed leave Memphis' Central Station at a quarter to nine, ignored a signal to stop, and died. We have an official Casey Jones tab made by UG professional guitarists.Check out the tab.
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