City of New Orleans

Subject: add verses: Humoresque
From: raredance
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 11:28 PM

If you simply have to go
When other people are too slow
There is only one thing you can do.
You'lljust have to take a chance
Be brave and do it in your pants,
But I'll forgive you, darling. I love you.

then there is:

Every evening after dark
We goose the statues in the park;
If Sherman's horse can stand it, so can you.
Washington was very firm
And Lincoln didn't even squirm,
Darling, that's why I'm in love with you.

and sinking a little lower;

Mabel, Mabel, stong and able,
Get your big ass of the table.
Don't you know the quarter is for beer?
You can always earn your pay,
But make you tips another way,
And I'll forgive you, darling. I love you.

rich r

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:12 AM

Poor Mabel.....all of them. Rhymes with table and of course then became convenient for Carlings Beer to for their famous jingle, "Mabel! Black Label! That's Carlings Black Label Beer." ......Which was then ripped to, "Mabel! Get off the table! The quarter's for the beer!"

Spaw

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: Lanfranc
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:56 AM

"Who's the one who did the pushin' Left a stain upon the cushion Footprints on the dashboard upside down? Was it you, you sly woodpecker Seduced my daughter, poor Rebecca? If it was, you'd better leave this town!

Yes, it was I who did the pushin' Left the stain upon the cushion Footprints on the dashboard upside down But since I did it with your daughter I've had trouble passing water So I guess we're even all around!

Thread creep, but Mark did ask!!

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:39 AM

Well, clearly the City of New Orleans is picking up more goodies as it creeps along through the night. Mark and Lanfranc, maybe we should start a new thread for songs we should have forgotten from those bright college days such as "The Lady Mechanic" – a primitive affirmative action song.

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: GUEST,MikeyJoe
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:11 AM

Hello from Mikey Joe, irish, exiled in Scotland, in New Orleans for a conference.

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: GUEST,buck
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:47 PM

City of new Orleans is the best train song i every heard

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: LBrazil
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 12:53 PM

Does any know what the line "the steel rail still ain't heard the news", means ??? What news ???

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: GUEST,saff
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 02:23 PM

On a visit to the USA a few years ago i drove through some southern states and if my memory serves me well,in Tallahasie there is an exhibit of an Illinois Central steam train and carriages that is open to the public to visit. it is a big black powerfull machine and as i enjoy singing the song myself i couldnt resist taking a few photos of it,which i still have.

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: open mike
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 04:54 PM

i just sang this song on pal talk
i think the news is that the passenger
train is becoming a thing of the past


amtrak used to get gov't subsidies
but is falling behind now..
costs a lot more that bus or plane
sometimnes..

and that song:
to stop the train
in cases of emergency
pull on the chord
pull on the chord
penalty for improper use
five pounds

this is a round sung by Tom Hunter...

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: Amos
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 07:06 PM

"Ain't heard the news" is coupled contextually with the train having the "disappearing railroad blues" -- in other words, not being aware that its kind is becoming extinct.

A

Subject: RE: City of New Orleans
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 10:21 PM

I have just done a search and it aint there but I DID post this back then. The Footprints on the Dashboard is from Oscar Brand's Letters to and from a Young Man on the Album Bawdy Songs Goes to College.

M is for the many times You made me
O is for the other times You tried
T is for those Tawdry Frat House weekends
H is for my hope I'd be a bride
E is for your everlasting Passin
R is for the ruin you made of me
Put them all together they spell Mother
And thats just It seems I'm going to be.

F is for your funny little letter
A is for the Answer to your note
T is for the tearful sad occasion
H is for your hope I'll be the goat
E is for the ease with which I made you
R is for the Rube you think I'll be
Put them all together they spell Father
But you'll never pin that label ,dear on me


Was it you who did the pushing, Put the stain upon the cushion
Footprints on the dashboard upside down
Was it you you sly woodpecker,Got into my girl Rebecca
If it was you'd better leave this town

Yes twas I who did the pushing,Put the stain upomn the cushion
Footprints on the dashboard upside down
But since i got into your daughter,I've had trouble passing water
So I think that makes us even all around.