[Dixielandjazz] Not quite OKOM "Train Song" info request FOUND

[David Richoux]

Somehow a staffer at KFJC came up with the answer (search engines are  
strange!)

DICK “TWO TON” BAKER & HIS MUSIC MAKERS:
Dick “Two Ton” Baker(p,vo)
1949
2521 What the engine done Merc.5281


full discography at: http://twotonbaker.com/2ton/pdfs/discography.pdf  
- interesting guy with some OKOM connections

but this is the original version:
sheet music:
http://odin.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/sm1911_what.pdf

TITLE: WHAT THE ENGINE DONE
ARTIST:
COMPOSER: Les Copeland
LYRICIST:  Les Copeland
PUBLISHER: Remick Music Corp.
COMMENTS: Originally copyrighted in 1911 : Jerome Remick & co.  
Transferred in 1928 to Remick Music Corp.
Mentions the following he is trying to make connections with after  
the engine left New Orleans.
Sante Fe, (Sunset Route).Old Red Light, M.K.T. ,Kansas Pass,  
C.&A.,Old Wabash, Jersey Central Line, Nickel Plate, Pennsylvnia  
Road,  Canon Ball,Missouri Pacific, Iron Mountain, Cotton Belt,  
LeHigh Valley, Old Grand Trunk, Boston and Main

Dave Richoux

On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:20 PM, David Richoux wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A friend is trying to recall the title and artist of a record he  
> had as a child. The following is the lyrics as best as he remembers  
> - but they are not 100 % correct. He thinks it was probably  
> recorded in the 40s - just a guy and his guitar.
>
> I have quickly checked my library and references, done a Google  
> search on chunks of the lyrics, no results.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave Richoux
> ------------------------------
> Listen let me tell what the engine's done,
> She left 'Naaawlins 'bout a quarter to one.
> The engineer sez, he sez, "Boy, hey!
> "I gotta make connections with the Santa Fe!"
>
>