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Author: | paulrace [ Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:39 pm ] |
Post subject: | Looking for a specific train song |
A reader writes: I am looking for a Train song my mother use to sing. Oh blow your whistle mr engineer Let the fireman shovel coal I am going to leave this town Cause spring is here again. Meet me down by the railroad tracks Show me a west bound train I am going to leave this town Never coming back cause spring is here again |
Author: | paulrace [ Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:42 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Looking for a specific train song |
Here's a version that was published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on Sep 16, 1935. Attachment: hobos_spring_song.jpg [ 64.14 KiB | Viewed 19885 times ] |
Author: | paulrace [ Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:44 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Looking for a specific train song |
Here's a link to an old 78 of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8cbRR_Tb18 |
Author: | paulrace [ Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:41 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Looking for a specific train song |
Spelled out so you can cut and past if you would like (thanks Larry W. Jones) The song your Mother sang is "Hobos Spring Song" Hobos Spring Song (1935) Sent in by Mrs. Claire Hickey, Victor, Montana published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on Sep 16, 1935 Oh, it's nice to have a job in the Wintertime When the stormy winds do blow It's when you get your pay on a Saturday When the ground's covered up with snow But this morning when I went to work I heard a robin sing So I quit today for I'm on my way Cause I know at last it's spring Chorus Oh, there ain't no use in staying here When the grass is growing green So I quit today for I'm on my way To some place I haven't seen While it may be north to Canada Or west to Idaho But when the old spring fever gets you, boy There's nothing else to do but go Way out west where the mountain tops A-reaching to the sky I want to stop and take a good long flop And watch the clouds go drifting by Let me make my java in an old tin can Beside a summer stream While the moon goes climbing up the snow peaks And makes the world a silvery gleam Take me down to the railroad yard Show me a west bound train Going to leave this town, never coming back Cause spring is here again So, blow your whistle, Mr Engineer Let the fireman shovel coal I'll be sitting on the floor, in a box car door Watching the black smoke roll Chorus Oh, there ain't no use in staying here When the grass is growing green So I quit today for I'm on my way To some place I haven't seen While it may be north to Canada Or west to Idaho But when the old spring fever gets you, boy There's nothing else to do but go |
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