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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."