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07 Apr 05 - 02:27 AM (#1454160) Subject: Origins: Working on the Railway From: GUEST,rivaflexer@yahoo.ca Nearly twenty years ago , my roommate in Yellowknife NWT played this song with the following lyrics: I got a job on the railroad track Swingin' my hammer and breakin' my back The foreman tries to work his men Seems like we're quittin' and we're workin' again Got a woman on down the line Takes my money and drinks my wine I'm gonna marry her one of these days But not while I'm working on the railway I recall the tune as well. I am wondering who wrote it. Anyone ever heard this? |
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07 Apr 05 - 10:53 PM (#1455031) Subject: RE: Origins: Working on the Railway From: michaelr refresh |
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07 Apr 05 - 10:58 PM (#1455037) Subject: RE: Origins: Working on the Railway From: GUEST,.gargoyle Why? Refresh? It is trumphed, bogus, without the hope of a faggot's fart in heaven.
Sincerely, |
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07 Apr 05 - 11:59 PM (#1455060) Subject: RE: Origins: Working on the Railway From: Q (Frank Staplin) What? The Canadian Railroad Trilogy is not posted? Rivaflexer, I haven't heard your song. (Another ca) |
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08 Apr 05 - 12:19 AM (#1455064) Subject: RE: Origins: Working on the Railway From: Q (Frank Staplin) Looking over Lightfoot's song, I think your roommate was taking his inspiration from the C.R.T. (click). |
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08 Apr 05 - 08:09 AM (#1455256) Subject: RE: Origins: Working on the Railway From: Bob the Postman Not every song about swinging a hammer on the railroad is inspired by CRT--it's more like Lightfoot drew upon a vast corpus of railroad songs when he put together CRT--Drill Ye Tarriers, for example. To me this verse smells like a folk revival era song inspired by hillbilly and/or African American sources. |
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08 Apr 05 - 11:47 AM (#1455403) Subject: RE: Origins: Working on the Railway From: GUEST,Lighter at work Agree with Bob the Postman. |