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22 Jan 99 - 08:16 AM (#55180) Subject: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Faireman I am looking for the words and music to the song, "Paddy works on the Railroad", and its hard to find. If you have them or you know where I can find them online E-mail me at bill.hoffer@gte.net. Thanks allot. |
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22 Jan 99 - 08:52 AM (#55185) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Big Mick Faireman, Welcome to the Mudcat. If you scroll to the top of the page, you will notice a search engine in the upper right corner. This will search the Digitrad database of lyrics. It searches by title as well as keyword or phrase. If you want to look for an exact phrase, you should use brackets. I typed in [Paddy works] and the lyrics you are looking for popped right up. Always look there first, and if you don't find what you are looking for, post a request and the remarkable people who frequent this place almost inevitably will find what you are looking for. If you have any problems, just post a question. All the best, Mick |
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22 Jan 99 - 09:25 AM (#55195) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Wolfgang Mick, you're right to remind faireman of the search window, but it's not always easy. I was sure that song should be in the database and entered Paddy railroad confident to find the song. It didn't turn up (I know now, why, thanks to you). However, this way I found another song from Art Thieme's great new CD that even Joe Offer hadn't found. The database is amazing and, at times, surprising. Wolfgang |
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22 Jan 99 - 10:40 AM (#55205) Subject: Lyr Add: PAT WORKS ON THE RAILWAY From: Liam's Brother Hi Faireman! This is a pretty good version... PAT WORKS ON THE RAILWAY When first from Limerick I come here My latter days to spend in cheer Our bosses they did drink good beer And Pat worked on the railway Fille-me-or-ree-or-ree-ay, fille-me-or-ree-or-ree-ay, Fille-me-or-ree-or-ree-ay, Poor Pat works on the railway. Our contractor's name it was Tom King He kept a store to rob the men A Yankee clerk with ink and pen To cheat Pat on the railway Now Pat do this and Pat do that Without a stocking or cravat And nothing but an old straw hat To work upon the railway One Monday morn to our surprise Just half an hour before sunrise The dirty devil went to the skies And Pat worked on the railway They gave me a drill to drill the hole And then, confound my Irish soul, And blast the ship that brought me o'er To work upon the railway Our smith he is from Molehill town He sharpens the picks that garbs the ground But he'll take a jigger when it goes round With the boys upon the railway When I lay me down to sleep The wiry bugs around me creep And devil a bit can poor Pat sleep While working on the railway When I rises in the morn I curse the sound of that damned old horn I curse the hour that I was born To work upon the railway Adapted from a broadside published by De Marsan of New York City by Dan Milner. Posted DM 1/99 All the best, Dan Milner |
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24 Jan 99 - 09:49 PM (#55552) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Susan of DT Another hint on searching for versions of songs: Once you have the one hit on [Paddy works], notice that the filename at the bottom of the song is PADRAIL1. The fact that there is a number in the filename implies that there are more of them. So I searched for PADRAIL* and found two more versions. |
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25 Jan 99 - 07:51 AM (#55595) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Steve Parkes Tom King was a famous highwayman, contemporary with Dick Turpin. He usded to live in a house at the other end of Stonnall in Staffordshire from where I live now. Wonder if "Tom King" was intended as a slur on the "good" name of the contractor? Steve |
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03 Jul 04 - 10:11 AM (#1218883) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: HuwG Does anyone have the chords to the lyrics posted by Liam's Brother in this thread ? |
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03 Jul 04 - 10:28 AM (#1218887) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Amos HuWg: I suspect this is the same tune as the version that starts "In 18 hundred and forty-one, I put me corduroy britches on...." and has rhymes for half a dozen years of work in it. If so, you could try Am....G.....Am.....G....E7 . A |
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03 Jul 04 - 02:15 PM (#1218963) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: HuwG Perhaps. However, I have heard it performed recently by Dana Robinson, under the title "Pat do this", and with chords that don't seem to match the other version (which is in the DT as PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILROAD). |
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03 Jul 04 - 06:31 PM (#1219042) Subject: RE: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Tattie Bogle In the UK it's the RailWAY! or as I remember it, that was how Ewan McColl sang it. |
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04 Jul 04 - 02:35 AM (#1219134) Subject: Pat Do This From: Desert Dancer HuwG, Dana Robinson says his "Pat Do This" comes via Jeff Davis. "Pat Do This" is a greatly reduced and interesting fragment of the more well-known "Paddy Works" item. It was collected in Nelson County, Virginia from Florence Fitzgerald by Maud Karpeles in 1950. (See this thread about those recordings, currently available from FolkTrax.) It was recorded on Jeff Davis's and Jeff Warner's excellent album, Two Little Boys (reissued on cd on RainDog Records, RD-102, 1994). I have also heard a couple other recordings that don't acknowledge Jeff, but their versions come from Jeff Davis, one way or another, because they include the verse he wrote. On the banjo it falls into a G-modal, "mountain minor" (gDGCD) tuning. (Sorry, from there I couldn't say precisely what the chords are!) Here's the text for the Mudcat record: Pat do this Pat do that without our shoes, without our hat, nothing in the world but an old straw hat to work all on the railroad. Chorus: Ruga shugaroo, shugarugaroo, Sugar in the cream jar, how do you do? Just on the railroad, folla folla ray, Johnny comes a-pickin' on the banjer. In eighteen hundred and forty two, I didn't know what I should do. I sailed across the ocean blue to work all on the railroad. In eighteen hundred and forty three, I sailed out across the sea. I didn't expect to see poor me a-workin' on the railroad. In eighteen hundred and forty four, I landed on this foreign shore I didn't expect to see me more a-workin' on the railroad. additional verse by Jeff Davis: Railroad Don/dawn (?), we'll take a ride. Here we go side by side, Here we go side by side, Johnny comes a-pickin' on a banjer. Sure wish I could pick it as well as Jeff D. does. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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04 Jul 04 - 07:57 AM (#1219215) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Marc Bernier There's a great version (if I may say so myself) on Songs of the Sailor, recorded by the Mystic Seaport Chanteymen about ten years ago. The cd was released with a companion book with all the songs on the recording transcribed in the book, which comes in handy for some folk. |
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04 Jul 04 - 03:25 PM (#1219376) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: HuwG Brilliant ! Thanks, Desert Dancer and Marc Bernier. |
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15 Nov 07 - 11:21 AM (#2194465) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: Desert Dancer A related song involving lumber, railroad or ship work using the siul a run (sorry about the spelling) related chorus: Lyr Req: The Old Moke Pluckin On The Banjo'. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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15 Nov 07 - 12:15 PM (#2194515) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: oombanjo thats why I love mudcat,thanks from me.Oombanjo.still waiting for my Remero banjar |
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09 Mar 11 - 06:40 AM (#3110245) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: ossonflags I think the original request was for CHORDS.Does any one have them please? |
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09 Mar 11 - 01:05 PM (#3110458) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: BrooklynJay These are the guitar chords I use, with the lyrics from the DT: PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY In [Em]eighteen hundred and forty-one, I [D]put my corduroy breeches on, I [Em]put my corduroy breeches on, To [Am]work up-[D]on the [Em]railway. [Em}Fil-a-mee-o-ry, ory, ay [D]Fil-a-mee-o-ry, ory, ay [Em]Fil-a-mee-o-ry, ory, ay To [Am]work up-[D]on the [Em]railway. |
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09 Mar 11 - 11:22 PM (#3110845) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Paddy works on the Railroad From: ossonflags Cheers BrooklynJay.That is a different version to the one I do, but will definatly have a go at that.. Very hard to find butI have just got this from a mate: G………………….. (hold it) In eighteen hundred and forty one.................... G D Me corduoy britches i put on G………. Me coorduroy britches i put on G D G D To work upon the railway G D the railway G C G Im weary of the railway G D G Poor paddy worked on the railway Chorus G G I was wearing............... G D corduroy britches G D dogging ditches G D pulling switches G D making pitches G C D G I was working on the railway And that's all there is to it |