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Railroad songs and ballads

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: CD 1508 | RounderSeries: The Library of Congress, Archive of Folk CulturePublication details: Rounder, 1997.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
1. Calling trains / unidentified train-caller -- 2. The boss of the section gang / Minta Morgan -- 3. Jerry will you ile that car / Ward H. Ford -- 4. Lining track / Henry Hankins -- 5. Roll on buddy / Aunt Molly Jackson -- 6. Way out in Idaho / Blaine Stubblefield -- 7. Oh, I'm a jolly Irishman winding on the train / Noble B. Brown -- 8. The engineer / Lester A. Coffee -- 9. George Allen / Austin Harmon -- 10. The wreck of the Royal Palm / Clarence, H. Wyatt -- 11. Train blues / Russell Wise & Mr White -- 12. The New River train / Ridge Rangers -- 13. The train is off the track / Mrs. Esco Kilgore -- 14. Gonna lay my head down on some railroad line / Will Wright -- 15. I rode Southern, I rode L & N / Merle Lovell -- 16. The Lightning Express / Jim Holbert -- 17. Railroad rag / Joe Harris & Kid West -- 18. The railroader / May Kennedy McCord -- 19. The T & P Line / Mary Sullivan -- 20. The dying hobo / George Lay -- 21. The big rock candy mountains / Harry McClintock -- 22. I'm going home on the morning train / E. M. Martin & Pearline Johns.

Compact disc.

Musical instruments: guitar, banjo, fiddle, violin, mandolin.

1. Calling trains / unidentified train-caller -- 2. The boss of the section gang / Minta Morgan -- 3. Jerry will you ile that car / Ward H. Ford -- 4. Lining track / Henry Hankins -- 5. Roll on buddy / Aunt Molly Jackson -- 6. Way out in Idaho / Blaine Stubblefield -- 7. Oh, I'm a jolly Irishman winding on the train / Noble B. Brown -- 8. The engineer / Lester A. Coffee -- 9. George Allen / Austin Harmon -- 10. The wreck of the Royal Palm / Clarence, H. Wyatt -- 11. Train blues / Russell Wise & Mr White -- 12. The New River train / Ridge Rangers -- 13. The train is off the track / Mrs. Esco Kilgore -- 14. Gonna lay my head down on some railroad line / Will Wright -- 15. I rode Southern, I rode L & N / Merle Lovell -- 16. The Lightning Express / Jim Holbert -- 17. Railroad rag / Joe Harris & Kid West -- 18. The railroader / May Kennedy McCord -- 19. The T & P Line / Mary Sullivan -- 20. The dying hobo / George Lay -- 21. The big rock candy mountains / Harry McClintock -- 22. I'm going home on the morning train / E. M. Martin & Pearline Johns.

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