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12-stringer Lyr Req: Frankie Dean (Darby & Tarlton) (6) RE: Lyr Req: Darby & Tarlton's Frankie and Johnny 21 Dec 07

Stewie,

If you don't mind checking, what does he get out of the line in "New York Hobo" about "running like ... on the Pennsylvania line"?

The transcription by Robert Nobley, in the old Folk Variety LP, is a bit nonsensical, and though to my ear it always sounded exactly like "running like they hauls [sic] the coal on the Pennsylvania line," both the image and the grammar leave me a little unsatisfied.

Thanks!

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