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Thread #79368   Message #4202868
Posted By: Lighter
23-May-24 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Paddy on the Railway
Subject: RE: Origins: Paddy on the Railway
Joe, none of the texts had titles. The Sun headed "Old Reader's" letter "The Erie Song."

Here's another example from the same series of letters:

"Forty years ago there was a song popular among the laborers in the north of Ireland only one stanza of which I can remember. It is like this:

In eighteen hundthred and sixty-wan.
The corduroys I did put on.
    To work upon the railway, the railway, the railway.

In eighteen hundthred and sixty-two
The corduroys they were wore through
    With workin' on the railway.

"Probably this was an echo of the Erie song blown across the water.
                                                                                                      "ANCIENT."