Dewberries Train Songs.....

For some reason..... I was reading an old post by Dr Walle about dewberries and blackberries and why they're named differently when in fact, they are almost the same.

 
Dewberry then became an earworm to me for the next couple of days, as I could not get the word or my memories of picking dewberries out of my head.
 
As children, dad would drive us to the country, you may know what I'm referring to, dirt roads on the outskirts of the city. Roads with ditches lined with barbed-wired fences to keep people out and cows in. On some fence lines, if a plowed field was on the other side, there was stalks of wild okra, maybe a tomato plant here and there. Mom considered those a bonus, and we bagged them as well. The farmers didn't mind that at all.
 
So through the phenomenon of a modern part of technology that we have come to know as "Google", when I got the chance this afternoon, I started researching dewberries.
 
I suppose it's quite fascinating if you're into that plant-genus kind of stuff, I just wanted to know the difference between a dewberry and a blackberry. I found out. In short, seems a dewberry can be referred to as a part of the blackberry family.

"Dewberries is a name for a grouping of blackberries that, instead of growing on upright branches, grow on canes that will trail along the ground if not propped up (and get covered in dew in the morning, hence the name.) The bushes consequently need support such as a trellis, fence or staking. They are better understood perhaps by one of their synonyms, "trailing blackberries."
 

I learned something, I suppose. Tomato- Tomahto. Dewberry- Blackberry. My problem was, the earworm was still haunting me. Then it hit me!

"Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us feuding
like the Hatfield and McCoy's
Between Hank Williams pain songs,
dewberries train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain, out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain..."

That doesn't make sense! The thing is...it's not dewberries train songs, never has been and never will be!

It's Newberry's train songs.
 
That lead to another google search about the song and I read of the man referenced by Waylon Jennings in that iconic ballad of Luchenbach, Texas, Mickey Newberry. The lyric actually goes like this:

Between Hank Williams pain songs,
Newberry's train songs..."

My problem is now a situation. I know the correct lyrics to a great song. I still cannot get it out of my head. But at least I know the words and learned about a great songwriter and singer.

So now, if you've read this far, go ahead and Google Mickey Newberry. I bet you learn something, too.

Comments

[Jim - PRS]

Never knew who Mickey Newberry was until today, although I'm familiar with a few of his songs. I spent more than a few minutes watching videos of him this afternoon.

Thanks.

[nathan morgan]

I love love love Mickey Newberry....his disc set is unbelievable. Long live great musical storytelling