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Thread #29196   Message #900911
Posted By: GUEST,Jillzington
01-Mar-03 - 01:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Dummy Line - What's a dummy train?
Subject: RE: What's a dummy train
I've loked for the music to the Dummy Line that I learned in grade school. Can't beleive all the different lyrics there are....the ones I learned.... Some folks say that the Dummy don't run. Come and let me tell you what the dummys done. She left St. Louis at half past one...and she rolled into Memphis at the setting of the sun. On the Dummy ..on the dummy line ....rise and shine. Rise and shine and pay your fine when you're riding on the Dummy on the Dummy Dummy line. Got on the Dummy didn't have my fare...conductor hollered what you doin there..I jumped up and made for the door...and he cracked me in the head with a two by four...(chorus)