The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1567   Message #5357
Posted By: Joe Offer
18-May-97 - 10:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Chattanooga Choo-Choo & Shoe Shine Boy
Subject: RE: Chatanooga-Choo-Choo
I tried searching the Digital Tradition database for the lyrics, and didn't find them - at least not in the 10/96 PC version. I also tried a Web search for the lyrics, and didn't find them. I was about to transcribe the lyrics for the questioner when some nice person found and posted them.

My point is, many of us ask for lyrics because we need them and the sources we've tried don't have them. We ask here for lyrics because there might be somebody here who can help, since most of the people here are quite nice about that sort of thing.

Quite often lately, though, somebody seems to feel some sort of moral obligation to be nasty about somebody's simple request for lyrics. I don't think that sort of nastiness is an asset to this group. We may disagree about whether non-folk lyrics should be discussed in this forum, but I think it's important that we always be nice about it.

'Nuff said.

-Joe Offer-