Interesting Facts about The American Railway
“The American Railway” is the shore version of the shanty ” Paddy Works On The Railway”.Most collectors think it started its life as a music-hall song, however, Richard Runciman Terry disagrees with this opinion. The land version was also sung by the early railroad workers of Young America around the forties and fifties of the nineteenth century. This song will be reconstructed as the shore song.
The source of this song
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 337).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 337).
The Record
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
The American Railway
In eighteen hundred an’ sixty one,
The ‘Merican Railway was begun,
The ‘Mericun Railway was begun,
The Great American Railway,
– Filimi, oree, airee ay, oh,
– fillimi. oree, airee ay,
– fillimi. oree, airee ay,
– Poor Paddy works on the railway.