Casey Jones Guitar And Mandolin Tab
Casey Jones Mandolin And Guitar Tabs In D Major With Chords
Casey Jones Sheet Music Mandolin / Tenor Banjo Tab and lyrics
Kassie Jones Sheet Music.
Furry Lewis, the great Memphis bluesman, recorded Kassic Jones in two parts for Victor in 1928, using a tune similar to that used by black railroad workers for Charley Snyder, and by the hoboes for Jay Gould's Daughter. Lewis apparently used parts of the texts of Casey Jones, Charley Snyder, and Natural Horn Baseman* along with words of his own, to produce a distinctive narrative.
In the city revival of the 1940's and 1950'b, it was Joe Hill's great parody of Casey Jones that was most often sung. It dealt with the Southern Pacific strike of 1911 (complete text in Lift Every Voice, The Second People's Song Book, Oak Publications):
The workers on the S.P. line
to strike sent out a call, Hut Casey Jones, the engineer,
wouldn't strike at all. His boiler, it was leaking,
and the drivers on the bum, And the engine and the bearings they were all out of plumb. Unlike his namesake in Hill's parody, the real John Luther "Casey" Jones was not a scab. He died a genuine hero, trying to bring his Illinois Central passenger train under control before it wrecked on April SO, 1900. His name and fame spread in song among both black and white railroad workers, with much borrowing of tunes and texts from other songs
Furry Lewis, the great Memphis bluesman, recorded Kassic Jones in two parts for Victor in 1928, using a tune similar to that used by black railroad workers for Charley Snyder, and by the hoboes for Jay Gould's Daughter. Lewis apparently used parts of the texts of Casey Jones, Charley Snyder, and Natural Horn Baseman* along with words of his own, to produce a distinctive narrative.
In the city revival of the 1940's and 1950'b, it was Joe Hill's great parody of Casey Jones that was most often sung. It dealt with the Southern Pacific strike of 1911 (complete text in Lift Every Voice, The Second People's Song Book, Oak Publications):
The workers on the S.P. line
to strike sent out a call, Hut Casey Jones, the engineer,
wouldn't strike at all. His boiler, it was leaking,
and the drivers on the bum, And the engine and the bearings they were all out of plumb. Unlike his namesake in Hill's parody, the real John Luther "Casey" Jones was not a scab. He died a genuine hero, trying to bring his Illinois Central passenger train under control before it wrecked on April SO, 1900. His name and fame spread in song among both black and white railroad workers, with much borrowing of tunes and texts from other songs
