Nothing lasts forever. Eventually, I will run out of train songs. How many can there be, after all?
I’ve decided to extend the train song of the day for only 50 more days. After that, I know there will still be plenty of train songs out there we haven’t explored together, but I’m OK with that. I should also freely admit, that there are lots of train songs I simply don’t like all that much and I’m not going to post those. Call it blogger’s privilege.
I’m going to count down from 50. If, along the way, you know of a train song you’d like me to post, if I can find it on the interwebs, I’ll consider your request. The last 50 are in no particular order.
#50 The Wreck of the Royal Palm performed by Frank Evans
27th Street 
Har! You wouldn’t want to hear me sing.
Frankly I’m impressed that you have consistently been able to keep them coming for so long – I never really clocked what a significant place the rail-road holds in musical consciousness! What’s the next series going to be?
Thanks Seymour. I hadn’t thought about a next series….hmmmmm…you know the first thing that comes to mind is to continue with the transportation theme:
You may have heard of jalopies,
You heard the noise they make,
Let me introduce you to my Rocket ’88.
Yes it’s great, just won’t wait,
Everybody likes my Rocket ’88.
Gals will ride in style,
Moving all along.
We’ll see…
50 is fine, providing of course that the 50th is a video of you playing the Wabash Cannonball on your excellent accordion and singing along with it. You have 50 days to practice and you can consider this as either a challenge or as suitable punishment depending on how well you do with the song 🙂 and of course we expect your performance to include an excellent hat!
I sing way too badly out of tune to ever do that, Salvelinas. Now if you’re volunteering to sing and play the banjo, all we need is a percussionist and someone to push go on the camera. I’ll supply the hats.