Chattanooga Choo Choo

Subject: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From:
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 06:54 PM

Trying to find the lyrics to Chattanooga Choo Choo. Can anyone help?

thanks, Dave

Subject: Lyr Add: CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO^^
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 07:23 PM

Here it is again with the line breaks. Sorry. I was trying to be first.


CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO


"Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?"
"Track twenty-nine." "Thanks, you can give me a shine."
"Can you afford to board the Chatanooga Choo-Choo?"
"I've got my fare, and just a trifle to spare.

"You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four,
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore,
Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer,
Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina.

"There's gonna be a certain party at the station,
Satin and lace, I used to call "Funny Face."
She's gonna cry until I tell her that I'll never roam,
So Chatanooga Choo-Choo, won'cha choo-choo me home."

At least that's what I remember of it.

The song made a cameo appearance in the Mel Brooks comedy "Young Frankenstein." When the train pull's into the station, young Dr. Frahnkensteen (as he pronounced it) asked a boy on the platform, "Pardon me, boy, is that the Transylvania Station?" The boy responds, "Ja, ja, track twenty-nine," and after a momen adds, "Oh, can I give you a shine?" The doctor responds bemusedly, "No, thanks."

--seed

Subject: RE: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 07:39 PM

Along with being a great cowboy star, Roy Rogers was also a golf nut. He bought a new pair of spikes and, like any new pair of shoes, they required some break-in. He wore them around the yard for several hours and then gave them a shot of neatsfoot and saddle soap. He put in the shoe trees tightly and left them on the back porch to dry. The next morning he came out to find them totally ravaged, ripped, chomped, and shredded beyond use. A mountain lion had been seen around the ranch and as Dale and Roy were bemoaning the damage, a loud snarling sound came out of the woods. Roy was picking up the shreds of his "Foot-Joys" when Dale turned and asked, "Pardon me Roy, is that the cat who chewed your new shoes?"

catspaw (with some apology)

Subject: RE: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From: John Hindsill
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 08:13 PM

That's the way I heerd it, Catspaw, that other version is just a ripoff.---John

Subject: RE: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From:
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 08:23 PM

Complete and accurately transcribed lyrics
for most oldies can be found at-
*LYRICS WORLD*

Subject: Lyr Add: CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO^^
From: Brakn
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 09:10 PM

It was nominated in 1941 for an Academy Awards but didn't win it. It was in the picture Sun Valley Serenade and was written by the great Harry Warren (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics). In the film it was danced to by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge. It next appeared in 1942 in the movie Springtime In The Rockies and was sang by Carmen Miranda, I think. In 1949 it was in You're My Everything. and then 1954 in The Glenn Miller Story.

Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo
Track twenty-nine, boy you can give me a shine
I can afford to board the Chattanooga Choo Choo
I've got my fare, and just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer
Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
Shovel all the coal in, gotta keep it rollin'
Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

There's gonna be a certain party at the station
Satin and lace, I used to call funny-face
She's gonna cry until I tell her that I'll never roam
So Chattanooga Choo Choo, won't you choo choo me home


Mick Bracken

Subject: RE: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 18 Jun 99 - 09:21 PM

Right you are, Mick, on the third stanza. I had forgotten that one, and in my rush to post--even though I was sure there was more to the song--left it out. But the first part is obviously a dialogue between the traveller and the shine "boy," likely a black man. He may also be the speaker in the second two sections, telling the traveller what to expect, and the traveller finishes off with the girl who stayed behind. --seed

Subject: RE: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From: Banjer
Date: 19 Jun 99 - 04:34 AM

No apologies neccessary, Catspaw...But be advised the folks at the NYC for the TS are aware of you malady. You should be hearing from their jacket tailor within a few days. (Do like the straps above or below the elbows, and w hat color would you prefer?) Pay no attention to the guy with the oversized butterfly net, he's as crazy as the rest of us!

Subject: RE: Chattanooga Choo Choo
From: Dick Wisan
Date: 25 Jun 99 - 11:04 AM

Bseed said

"But the first part is obviously a dialogue between the traveller and the shine "boy," likely a black man. He may also be the speaker in the second two sections, telling the traveller what to expect, and the traveller finishes off with the girl who stayed behind." -

When that song was popular (& I was in high school), the standard recording was in a black voice throughout. Naive as I was, then, I kept thinking, doesn't he know what will happen when the train leaves the D.C.?