Mudcat Café message #4236635

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Thread #79368 Message #4236635
Posted By: Lighter
08-Mar-26 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Paddy on the Railway
Subject: RE: Origins: Paddy on the Railway

Greenock Telegraph (Dec. 6, 1862):

"STREET SONGS...Songs of a transatlantic or sea-faring class are likewise favourites:

   Oh, in eighteen hundred and forty-four,
   Poor Paddy went off to Baltimore,
   Poor Paddy went off to Baltimore,
   To work upon the ra-il-way, the ra-il-way -
   To work upon the ra-il-way,
   To work upon the railway."