Re: Australian railway songs

["Robert Bushby" <romanabt@tassie.net.au>]

"Billy Sheen" was recorded by the Moreton Bay Bushwackers in 1959 on a 10
inch LP. I've got a copy of it somewhere in my collection. The tune is the
tune of the well known Casey Jones song - but this is a graet QR yarn - "he
drove a C16 faster than the Spirit of P" etc etc.

Top yarn and song, we used to sing it on ARHS tours many years ago
especially late at night on overnight tours (some of us did, anyway!!)


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Rob Bushby
South Coast Extended (HO - NSWGR)
(under construction)
Queenstown, Tasmania.
romanabt@tassie.net.au

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"John Garaty" <jkgaraty@1earth.net> wrote in message
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> 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
> 90iafp$kt9$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:90iafp$kt9$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > 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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> > Before you buy.
>
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