As for 'Jay Gould's Daughter,' it's part of a long, long tradition I call 'stick in a woman and make it her fault.'

It starts with Eve, moves on to Pandora, includes Snow White's stepmother, Nurse Ratched and I-don't-know-how-many women in the movies.

What is the use of this song? It wasn't a woman who decided to make it harder for hobos to ride in railcars. It was railroad management and law enforcement - two male strongholds if ever there were.

The song is just another man with a crippled ego expressing his hate for women and making himself look righteous at the same time. It's called hypocrisy, Joe.
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A long time ago (20 years?) in Milwaukee, a rail worker heard noises coming from a rail car which has been nailed shut and left on a siding. Two boys (about 13) had got in it in Arkansas and had been there for several days.

They were alive because the car was returning beer bottles to a brewery, and there was enough beer left in various bottles to keep the boys in fluids. The railroad said it was a miracle they were found in time.

My second point is that it's not a good idea to romanticize (or even publicize) the idea of hitching rides in rail cars. It's very unsafe.