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Lyrics/tune Correction - Kettle Valley Line DigiTrad: THE KETTLE VALLEY LINE In Mudcat MIDIs: The Kettle Valley Line (The Kettle Valley Line, as sung by Stan Triggs himself)
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Subject: RE: Lyrics/tune Correction - Kettle Valley Line From: Stewart Date: 17 Jun 09 - 12:29 PM Here's the version sung by Jerry Middaugh (click on the title) in Seattle, on the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society web page. Cheers, S. in Seattle |
Subject: RE: Lyrics/tune Correction - Kettle Valley Line From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Jun 09 - 08:29 PM Click to playThis tune sounds very familiar. What other songs use it? Thanks, Tony. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyrics Correction - Kettle Valley Line From: llareggyb (inactive) Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:37 PM MIDI tune - I am also sending an updated MIDI file to Joe Offer. |
Subject: Lyrics Correction - Kettle Valley Line From: llareggyb (inactive) Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:35 PM This is a minor correction to the DT lyrics to The Kettle Valley Line, as sung by Stan Triggs himself, and posted on the BC Govt site http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/folklore/folklore/worksong/kettle.htm, link courtesy of The British Columbia Folklore Society (http://www.folklore.bc.ca/folksongs.htm). Verse 2: I order my meals through the ventilator... They taste no worse, and saves tippin' the waiter... - Tony Patriarche (Full text from link added by Joe Offer)
The Kettle Valley LineLocation: Hope, B.C. to Lethbridge, AlbertaDate: about 1917 Informant: From the singing of John Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat Source: Songs and Stories of Canada. Richmond, B.C.: Provincial Educational Media Centre, Ministry of Education, 1980. Historical Notes I always ride upon the roof I order my meals through the ventilator I buy a sandwich from the cook The railway bulls are gentlemen They tip their hats and they call you "Sir" Repeat first verse. Editor's note: "Railway bulls" were the railway police. The "Stir" was the jail.
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