Couple o' coincidences re this thread: {{{{ Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down by the station, early in the mo
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 04:23 PM www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=19708 }}}}
My name is also Allan C. but not the same one. Livin' on West Coast. Relatives partly from Missouri handed down this version in our family. One of my relatives was a Station master, Missouri-Pacific [MoPac] railway.   While researching this topic, the first version I happened on that contained the name "station master" was from the Allan C. with many mudcat messages from prior to 2009. Would like to email him re this but don't know where. Here is the way we were taught it, an often sung childhood bedtime song, along with other train songs, "Sleepy Town Express" & "I been workin' on the' Rail-road": //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////             Down By the Station

Down by the station
Early in the morning
See the little pufferbellies
Standing in a row

See the station master
Give 'em all the sig-nal
Chug, chug, toot, toot
Off we go!