I just went nuts over LD's recording when it came out - I still have the 45.

The Stan Freberg parody, with the late Peter Leeds as the unimpressed producer, was pretty good too.

"I got pigs, I got horses, I got cows..."

"You don't have to name all the animals."

"You didn't let me get to the sheep, man."

"It doesn't matter."

"It matters to the sheep!"

While the song was popular there was also a Dodge Truck commercial that utilized the song's basic structure with different lyrics.

When no one seems to mention, however, is that the Rock Island, as far as I know, never went to New Orleans. Its line from Tucumcari to Memphis connected with the Illinois Central, which did, and still does.