The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32615 Message #4236634
Posted By: Jack Horntip
08-Mar-26 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I've Been Working on the Railroad
Subject: RE: Origins: I've Been Working on the Railroad
SONG: Air--"Some one in the house with Dinah,"
I've been looking o'er the house for Dinah ; I've Been loking for her high and low ; Whatever has become of Dinah No one seems at all to know.
It is the pace--it is the pace that kills. The air's refreshing with the rich perfume Of cauliflowers--'twill clear my head, perhaps, That with the old boy's port has somehow got Obfuscate !
1854. Willikind and Hys Dinah. Preformed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket [ London ]. The tune seems well known enough that it is being used in this production.