The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11593   Message #88120
Posted By: bseed(charleskratz)
20-Jun-99 - 02:13 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Union Miners / Miner's Lifeguard
Subject: RE: union miners
"Life's Railway to Heaven" ("Life is like a mountain railway...")is in the digitrad, all right. The first place I heard it was on The Amazing Rhythm Aces (I can't remember the name of the album if it was different from that of the band), who started with an old-timey country version and halfway through kicked the tempo up to a bluegrass version, and on The Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band's "Will the Circle Be Unbroken II)--Johnny Cash sang the lead vocal on that one. If you can find either of those albums, you have the tune. I'm sure lots of other people have recorded it--it's a great, very singable song.

--seed