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Title: |
Singing Rails |
| Sub-title: |
Railroadin' Songs, Jokes & Stories |
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| By (author): |
Wayne Erbsen |
| ISBN10-13: |
188320626X : 9781883206260 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
69 |
| Weight: |
.110 Kg. |
| Published: |
Native Ground Books & Music - April 1997 |
| List Price: |
7.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
No Longer Distributing
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| Subjects: |
Musical scores, lyrics & libretti |
| Finally! A low cost book packed with songs and lore of the railroads! This companion to our recording, "Singing Rails: 14 Railroadin' Songs", includes the melody and lyrics to 28 classic sing-alongs plus: railroad superstitions, tall tales of train wrecks, robberies, ghosts, hobos, train insults, railroad slang, street-car poetry, vintage drawings and photographs. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Cannonball Blues; Casey Jones; Death of Edward Lewis; East Bound Train; Freight Train Boogie; In the Pines; John Henry; Life's Railway to Heaven; The LIghtning Express; Lonesome Pine Special; Midnight Special; New River Train; Nine Hundred Miles; Nine Pound Hammer; On the Dummy Line; Railroad Bill; The Railroad Corral; Railroadin' & Gamblin; Railroading on the Great Divide; Reuben's Train; Rock Island Line; Swannanoa Tunnel; This Train; Train on the Island; Train That Carried My Girl From Town; Wabash Cannonball; When the Train Comes Along; Wreck of the Old 97. |
| Reviews: |
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"Native Ground Books & Music is an impressive niche publisher of books and recording in the genre of historic American music, folklore, and cookbooks. No railroading enthusiast will want to miss Wayne Erbsen's "Singing Rails: Railroadin' Songs, Jokes & Stories", which offers 69 pages of songs like Casey Jones and New River Train, or such fascinating tidbits of information that range from railroad superstitions, to street-car poetry, to famous train robberies, to hobo jokes." -- Midwest Book Review
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