OT: Need help IDing finger-pickin guitar tunes!

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Does anyone know the names of these tunes and song?

Tune 1
Tune 2
Tune 3
Tune 4
Song 5

I think Tune 1 is “The Last Steam Engine Train”. One of the others may have the title “Windy and Warm”. I think one of the rags might be “Dill Pickle Rag”.The last bit is a song with a chorus that goes something like:

When my earthly trials are over
Cast my body out in the sea
Save all the undertaker’s bills
Let the mermaids flirt with me

Help would be most appreciated.


-David

P.S. Sorry about the Real Audio format. I hate it too but I had to conserve server space.

P.P.S. Just found the title of the song. It’s a Mississippi John Hurt number called “Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me”.

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I think #2 is Windy and Warm but I haven’t heard it for a long time. #3 is Dill Pickle Rag. #5 sounds like that song that goes “Stindin’ on the platform, smoking a cheap cigar, waiting on the next freight train to carry an empty car.” I can’t understand the words and they’re cut off. I don’t know the other two at all.

Steve

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Thanks Steve. A bit more digging and now I have 4 out of 5 confirmed:

Last Steam Engine Train
Windy and Warm
Dill Pickle Rag
Tune 4
Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me

Tune 4 anyone???

-David