Where do you work Marie ? In the telephone company! Whaddya do Marie ? I push, I push, I push! Whaddya push Marie ? I push, I push-a da plug! Where do you work Marie ?...etc.

The song was popular on NYC radio. Best I can recall, it would have been right after WWII. I suspect that John Gambling (the original John, not his son) played it on WOR, as that's what my dad usually had on in the morning as we were getting ready for work and school. No idea who the artist was (male). But I can still hear the song.

Some one else "push-a da broom." Might have been John himself, in the version I recall. Sounds as if the one I recall is a cover of something earlier. I don't think Gambling would have been playing those old-style disks in the late forties.

On the subject of snarky railroad acronyms (could be another thread), The old FJ&G RR up here in northern New York was, officially, the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville line (a rural trolley line, one of many). Locally referred to as "Fart, Jump & Grunt". -George