Name: Orange Blossom Special
Channel: Ervin T Rouse / Gordon Rouse
Description: [Choose a **free download** when you join The Rosinators' mailing list] Country classic, written by fiddler Irvin T Rouse in 1938, inspired by the luxury train service which ran between New York and Miami from 1925 to 1953 which passed through the Fl

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[Choose a **free download** when you join The Rosinators' mailing list] Country classic, written by fiddler Irvin T Rouse in 1938, inspired by the luxury train service which ran between New York and Miami from 1925 to 1953 which passed through the Fl

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Song Info

Genre

Country • Cover Songs

Charts

Peak #174

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Ervin T Rouse / Gordon Rouse

Rights

MCPS licence (PDC Music)

Uploaded

April 17, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:28

Story behind the song



Johnny Cash: [in a 1994 'Life Magazine' interview]


"I recorded 'Orange Blossom Special' in the mid '60s,
and in those days everybody that recorded it claimed
the "arrangement" because no one knew who wrote it.
But Mother Maybelle Carter was at the session, and
I asked her, "Do you know who really wrote 'Orange

Blossom Special'?" She said, "Sure I do. Ervin Rouse
and his brother Gordon." And I said, "Where are they?"
She said, "Last time I heard, they were in Florida......"

Read the full story behind the Orange Blossom Special

Lyrics



Orange Blossom Special

1. Well look a-yonder comin'
   Comin' on down the track
   Well look a-yonder comin'
   Comin' on down the track
   It's the Orange Blossom Special
   Bringin' my baby back

2. Well talk about her ramblin'
   She's the fastest train on the line
   Well talk about her travellin'
   She's the fastest train on the line
   She's the Orange Blossom Special
   Rollin' down the seaboard line

3. Well, I'm going down to Florida
   Get some sand in my shoes
   Or maybe California
   Get some sand in my shoes
   I'll ride the Orange Blossom Special
   And lose those New York blues

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Shelly Ann

Apr 20, 2011

Great job.  Im really likin' what you all are doing.  I am new to all of this so just making friends and getting my name out there.  Dont have a lot uploaded right now but working on it.  Again great job guys!