To continue McGrath's theme about other songs using the Casey name, Duncan Emrich, 'American Folk Poetry', gives an interesting mining parody that he collected from Bill Gilbert of Grass Valley, California in 1914. Gilbert first heard it in 1918 when he was president of the Western Federation of Miners. It has verses like:

They went into the crosscut to drill some more
The powder exploded with a hell of a roar
It scorched poor Casey just as flat as a pan
And now he's a-mining in the promised land

Casey said just before he died,
'There's one more machine I would like to have tried'
His partner said, 'What can it be?'
'An Ingersoll jackhammer now don't you see?'

Casey Jones was a ten-day miner
Casey Jones was a ten-day man
Casey Jones took a chance too many
And now he's mining in the promised land

--Stewie.