“Wreck on the Highway”

Description

Singer sees automobile wreck with passengers killed,, "where whiskey and blood run together...I heard the wreck on the highway/But I didn't hear nobody pray"

Cross references

Recordings

  • Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys, "Wreck on the Highway" (Okeh 06685, 1942; Columbia 37028, 1946; Columbia 37596/Columbia 20195, 1947; Columbia 52026, 1956)
  • New Lost City Ramblers, "Wreck on the Highway" (on NLCR08)

References

  1. DT, WRCKHWAY
  2. BI, DTwreckh

About

Author: Dorsey Dixon
Earliest date: 1930s