Midnight Light on Nobelly
Triceratops In the Sugar Land branch of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, housed in a renovated building that served as a prison during the Jim Crow era.
“According to folk music historian Alan Lomax as documented in the book Folk Song USA, the Midnight Special was a real train: the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Limited. A traditional folk song, Leadbelly popularized it upon his release from Sugar Land prison in Texas, where he could hear the Midnight Special come through. In the song, the light of the train gives the inmates hope: if it shines on them they take it as a sign they will soon go free.”
—songfacts.com
For the #bones theme in Smile on Saturday.
01:30 UTC; 28 Oct 2023;
Midnight Light on Nobelly
Triceratops In the Sugar Land branch of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, housed in a renovated building that served as a prison during the Jim Crow era.
“According to folk music historian Alan Lomax as documented in the book Folk Song USA, the Midnight Special was a real train: the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Limited. A traditional folk song, Leadbelly popularized it upon his release from Sugar Land prison in Texas, where he could hear the Midnight Special come through. In the song, the light of the train gives the inmates hope: if it shines on them they take it as a sign they will soon go free.”
—songfacts.com
For the #bones theme in Smile on Saturday.
01:30 UTC; 28 Oct 2023;