Re: ODD DESTINATIONS

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

JohnMcCandless wrote:
> 
> Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in article
> <376e2d96.0@iridium.webone.com.au>...
> > Lets see if I can remember a ditty based on reading the QR timetable, and
> > I've been to many of the places. Apologies for any mispellings
> corrections
> > welcomed
> 
> Took me a while, but i found it in "Australian Railway Journeys" Collins,
> 1985,
> compiled by John Cook.  (Though it's the sort of thing i would have
> expected
> to find in something written by Colin Taylor...)
> 
> Originally "Auf die schwa`bsche Eisebahne" (umlaut over the "a")
> Orally transmitted German folksong from the Upper Burnett

That must be the tune used by an Australian group who recorded it for 
the ABC. It's on one of the Australia All Over albums.

Anyway, I thought the song of Queensland Railways was I'll Walk Beside 
You. :)

Cheers
David