KC MOAN

“K.C.” refers to a train on the Kansas City train line. I think it’s a prison song, maybe a

convict work song. The singer is not hearing the sound of the Kansas City train whistle.

He is remembering a time in the past when he mistakenly thought he heard that train

whistle. This imagined train did not have the woman he loves aboard — the sound he

remembers having thought he heard was the sound a train might have made if it did carry

the woman he loves.

Well, I thought I had heard that K C when she moan

Thought I heard that K C when she moan

Thought I heard that K C when she moan

Well I thought I heard that K C whistle moan

Well I thought I heard that K C whistle moan

Well she blow like my woman’s on board

When I get back on that K C road

When I get back on that K C road

When I get back on that K C road

Gonna love my baby like I never loved before