Kelly at OPP 4.10
Added 2018-05-25 01:01:00 +0000 UTCOld Man Phelps tells his story. Wow, did he own Engine 49, the one the famous folk song was about?
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Actually, "Engine #49" appears in the lyrics of the Warren-Mercer song "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." "Do you hear that whistle down the line/I figure that it's engine number forty-nine/She's the only one that'll sound that way/On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe..." While the song was written in the early 1940s, it was for a movie set in the 1880s.
Eric Costello
2018-05-29 03:55:58 +0000 UTCYou won't find it because it's only a Famous Folk Song in my imaginary world. The song, about a ghost train that carries the spirits of the dead to the underworld, was first recorded by the .. uh .. the Pine Mountain Boys (?) in 1928. We don't know much about the melody, but the lyrics may date back as far as the 1870s since it refers in one verse to legendary railroad engineer Moses Fisher who died in a disastrous train wreck in 1869. One of the two alternating choruses goes: There ain't no engine forty-nine Not on any schedule I can find She's got a route to run, and she runs it on time You can always count on forty-nine
2018-05-25 15:32:21 +0000 UTCi... have no idea which song that is... GOOGLE I CHOOSE YOU! ... it... was not very effective. I still do not know what song that is.
Simone Spinozzi
2018-05-25 07:47:44 +0000 UTC
