The words are an answer to a question that is posed in the verse but missing from this version: A forsaken woman seeks news of her vanished lover, who she describes as a down-and-out jockey, or Easy Rider.
Banks reports that the man hit town today “on a southbound rattler side-door Pullman car” – th...
Easy Rider struck this burg today
On a southbound rattler side door Pullman car
I seen him here and he was on the hog
Easy Rider's gotta stay away
So he had to vamp it but the hike ain't far
He's gone where the Southern cross' the Yellow Dog
Easy Rider struck this burg today
On a southbound rattler side door Pullman car
I seen him here and he was on the hog
Easy Rider's gotta stay away
So he had to vamp it but the hike ain't far
He's gone where the Southern cross' the Yellow Dog
Yellow Dog Blues was written by W. C. Handy.
Fats Waller released Yellow Dog Blues on Tue Jul 26 1932.