Re: Australian railway songs

["John Garaty" <jkgaraty@1earth.net>]

Greetings all, Also another Queensland song was about Billy Sheen and the
C16. It was on a 10" record of folk songs released for the Queensland State
Centenary (1958?), artists unknown. The tune was to the "Casey Jones" melody
and the end result was the same - boiler explosion while trying to make up
time. The song ends with the widow telling her kids "Your next old man will
be a guardian of lambs". Anyone out there heard of this one?
Regards, John Garaty

James C. <james_ccj@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <XKYW5.32$1p4.2896@news0.optus.net.au>,
>   dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> > I think this has been discussed before, but I can't find the thread
> in the
> > archives or on deja.com.
> >
> > Has anybody made a canonical list of Australian railway songs? Off
> the top
> > of my head I can think of:
> >
> > Indian Pacific, by Joy McKean. Recorded by Slim Dusty (ARPA song of
> the
> > year and top selling country song of 1978.) Recently re-released by
> The
> > Bushwackers.
> >
> > The Ghan, by Ted Egan.
> >
> > Jolly Green Giant, by Johnny Ashcroft.
> >
> > 3801, by Ray King and Ron Russell. Did they write any others?
> >
> > A heap by the late Alan Rowe.
> >  - The Puffing Billy Song
> >  - The Beechie
> >  - The Deepdene Dasher
> >  - Riding in the old Z van
> >  - The aren't and they shan't 'cos they can't.
> >
> > Queensland Railway Line (trad?)
>
> QR also had a song for Kuranda train. It was printed on QR timetable in
> the early 90s.
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Railway Rasputin
>
>
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