I've been working on the Railroad - Paul Tremaine & Orch.
Vložit
- čas přidán 7. 06. 2008
- Here is Paul Tremaine & His Orchestra playing "I've been working on the Railroad" from the 1929 vitaphone short. Enjoy!
And I'm sorry, but not one of the pictures in the movie is of Paul Tremaine & Orch. If anyone has one, I'd love to see it! - Hudba
2:01 I had no idea people jammed SO HARD to this almost a century ago. I kinda dig it.
This is the song that taught me to whistle when I was a child. It was the only bearable 'kid' song that my grandmother and I enjoyed.
trythewine Oh yeah they jammed. They jammed so much prohibition became a thing!
these were the original pop classics. The melodies still hold up today
Speak easys, flappers, al capone!
What’s your take on John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt ? Lmao
I've had this song stuck in my head for days ....it didn't stop until I listened to it ....Thank GD
yan bigtimeinc me to but it didnt stop
Days I had this song stuck in my head for years. Every time I’m working without music I hum this song
Much closer to the original than today's child's song.
Yup
Couldn't agree more, you can't get better than the classics
Yeah it's not really a kids song
Yea, this should be they only version of this song that should exist!
Jep
I heard it for the first time in nursery. Today after 22 years I'm listening to the original and it feels quite emotional.
"the beat goes ssoooooo hard
this beat goes in"
- railroad workers in the studio, circa 1929.
It’s been four long years
Finally, I found it 😮😊
I use to sing this song at my school back in 2017 man I miss those times
Now that's real Americana music right there:)
yup. real racist song. love amerikkka 😋
valerie chacón how is it racist
valerie chacón I ‘thumbs upped’ The Bossinator’s response but afterward, whilst scrolling down the other comments under this video, I saw that someone had posted an extract from the Wikipedia entry for this song. Sadly it is indeed a racist song 😪😪😪
@@valerie7236 Where do you wanna go?? Give up your citizenship and I'll pay your plane ticket!
@@valerie7236 almost like every country is "racist" 😋
This reminds me of when I was younger. I used to love trains and listening to old songs like this.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"I've Been Working on the Railroad"
Levee Song from Carmina Princetonia (1898).jpg
"I've Been Working on the Railroad", published as Levee Song in the Princeton University compilation Carmina Princetonia, 1898 About this sound Play (help·info)
Song
Written unknown
Published 1894
Writer unknown
Language English
Recorded by The Sandhills Sixteen
"I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894.[1] The earliest known recording is by the Sandhills Sixteen, released by Victor Records in 1927.[2]
Lyrics[edit]
The verses that generally constitute the modern version of the song are:[3]
I've been working on the railroad
All the live-long day.
I've been working on the railroad
Just to pass the time away.
Can't you hear the whistle blowing,
Rise up so early in the morn;
Can't you hear the captain shouting,
"Dinah, blow your horn!"
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn?
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn?
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone's in the kitchen I know
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Strummin' on the old banjo!
Singin' fee, fie, fiddly-i-o
Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o-o-o-o
Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o
Strummin' on the old banjo.
The 1894 version includes a verse very much like the modern song, though in minstrel dialect, but with an intro that is no longer sung:[4][5]
(SOLO) I once did know a girl named Grace--
(QUARTET) I'm wukkin' on de levee;
(SOLO) She done brung me to dis sad disgrace
(QUARTET) O' wukkin' on de levee.
I been wukkin' on de railroad
All de livelong day,
I been wukkin' on de railroad
Ter pass de time away.
Doan' yuh hyah de whistle blowin'?
Ris up, so uhly in de mawn;
Doan' yuh hyah de cap'n shouin',
"Dinah, blow yo' hawn?"
Sing a song o' the city;
Roll dat cotton bale;
Niggah aint half so happy
As when he's out o' jail
Norfolk foh its oystahshells,
Boston foh its beans,
Chahleston foh its rice an' cawn,
But foh niggahs New Awleens.
Honestly insane that this is almost 100 years old.
1:23 my favourite part! Makes me shake my body down 💃🏾
lmao
Just realized the Eyes of Texas sounds good exactly like this
This song just automatically played in my head so here I am to memorize it 🤣
I've been looking for something like this for years.
Great musicians. Thanks.
Lowkey offended that nobody ever told me this song was such a banger originally
Best fucking version so fucking far ive klicked and i klicked a lot!!!!
mick0maticNL wow 5 years ago
I came here because my sister was singing this and got it stuck in my head
Every generation remembers this
Marvellous.
I have been looking until for this for a while and Finally I FOUNDED IT! YAY :D
Thank you, added to a playlist...
I love this song
My mom would always sing this to my sister.
Ryuji and Morgana are man of culture.
This is about ten million times better than Despacito.
András Agócs but 10 million times 0 is still 0
despacito is pure shit i really dont understand why ppl like that song so much.
People keep mentioning that song over and over...
Emme Cee Yeah man, which is especially annoying as the song is as stale as 3-times reheated roast turkey meat
hear that lonesome whistle blow
I was looking for this song when my friend played this song in his Roblox server. XD
Whats the Roblox I.D.?
0:29 is my favorite part!
Cara al sol xdxd
Siempre que silbo esta cancion, alguien me lo dice :D
Both of you are quite welcome.
Is that a picture of Glenn Miller at 0:32?
Woo!
Here are the words as originally composed:
I been wukkin' on de railroad
All de livelong day,
I been wukkin' on de railroad
Ter pass de time away.
Doan' yuh hyah de whistle blowin'?
Ris up, so uhly in de mawn;
Doan' yuh hyah de cap'n shouin',
"Dinah, blow yo' hawn?"
Sing a song o' the city;
Roll dat cotton bale;
Niggah aint half so happy
As when he's out o' jail
Norfolk foh its oystahshells,
Boston foh its beans,
Chahleston foh its rice an' cawn,
But foh niggahs New Awleens.
Fortress of faith what
@@anobesewalnut8yearsago994 what
0:57 casual blackface is casual
THANK YOU STEAM PUNK AND NEW ZEALAND PLUNKET
es el cara al sol
Swiss's Great Locomotive chase brought me here.
If you are from Spain then you know which song it is.
PS: I'm Spaniard too.
Del barco de Chanquete... no nos moverán ;)
@@mario_verbenas Me refería al Cara al Sol xddddd
Se parece también, pero la de Chanquete bastante más aún XD
The Eyes if Texas are upon you!!!
Hook’em Horns!!!🤘🏻
Gig ‘em!
2018 and still listening to this 😂😂😂
Looney Tunes
Thanks..I keep thinking where did I heard this song
Woody Woodpecker
*This reminds me of the time when I fighted 1 air bending buff vampire....*
Woody Woodpecker.
how did you find this song?
I AM WHO I AM!!!
🦁🧑⚖️🏰
boy-scout.....meal time song
I've had to come here after watching the cosby show again
1000/12
it has the same rythme as heilli heilo heilei !!
BOO! Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo.......ICU_____________________________________________________________
I think i have to make this song my intro
Yowza!
Vannoss brought me here
0:28
0:25 cass city branchline
Joseph Joestar!!!
Oh my god
i've been working on my hamon
O barbeiro de shevilha
I'm Thomas and I've been working on the railroad
The Cass City Branchline stories anyone?
I've been working on the railro... *German sniper shots Sowosko*
Can anyone tell me the first four stanzas of this version?
I can only make out
"I was born in..."
And
"....sundown"
"I was born in Mobile-Town
a-workin on the levy
All day I roll the cotton down
a-workin' on the levy
Oh I've working on the railroad
all the live-long day
I've been working on the railroad
just to pass the time away
Can't you hear the whistle blow-
Rise up so early in the morn'
Cant you hear the capt'n shouting
Diana blow your-
*music*"
Best I can comprehend
Go Jonny ca$h rip
Vim pelo Pica Pau no episódio presuntos defumados kkkkk
vim pelo barbeiro de Sevilha
Anyone else here from the Cass City Branchline Stories?
sounded like Tram on C- melody.....
That's Paul, who turns out to have been one of the first real jazz saxophonists - in K.C. back in 1920, tho he made no records then. He also played alto, clarinet, and violin, and sang too.
1st part of the lyrics???
What I got from this: "I was born in oak town, I'm working on the levee"
I remember this song from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Bugs sang it, I think.
Persona 5 anyone? =P
1:33
Y'all realize who Dinah is, don't you?
1929? jeasus.
karlosx8 it’s actually 1894
@@JessJess347 the recording is from 1929 dude.
In 2020 XD
Elmer fudd ??? :D
🤣
I came here by Jojo
xMattia
1:05 Is that really a five string ???
The banjo was big in ragtime music, having evolved from African gourd instruments by enslaved people in the American south. The loudness of the 5-string allowed ragtime banjoists like Vess Osman and Fred Van Epps to blend easily with horns and pianos. Early jazz in turn evolved out of ragtime and often used the same instrumentation.
Well would be nice if the singers could be hear
Quem aí veio por causa do pica pau no episódio " presunto defumado"?? 😂😂😂😂
0:56 what the actual F 😵
That's what I'm sayin
I was waiting on that one. My kid is on the spectrum and loves trains so I thought I would show him this song. Then I saw that and the original original lyrics. My son is half Black. There goes that song...
Only kids from the 1910's would get this 😔✊
Bugs Bunny brought me here.
Shotgun Willy brought me here
Jojo reference
All on broad the Trump train!
crappy
whoo hoo on the whoowhoo train whistle boogie