This book Minstrels of the Yukon (1948), has a snippet (all I can see), that names a bar called Boozer Brown and has the note:

The finale every evening had, by popular demand, to be a little number entitled "Boozer Brown" or "There's A Headlight on the Track" and the audience joined in on this. It was a nonsense jingle, and it is hard to realize..."

(This is from the search results and is more informative than the detailed result page).


The song also appears in the index of a later book Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush (1999).


It may be that the songs originated there or possibly was just popular. It would be nice if anyone had access to those two books.

Mick