Singing Rails: Railroadin' Songs, Jokes & Stories
by Wayne Erbsen
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Finally! A low cost book packed with songs and lore of the railroads! This companion to our recording, "Singing Rails: 14 Railroadin' Songs", includes the melody and lyrics to 28 classic sing-alongs plus: railroad superstitions, tall tales of train wrecks, robberies, ghosts, hobos, train insults, railroad slang, street-car poetry, vintage drawings and photographs.Tags
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Wayne Erbsen has been collecting rural American music, folklore and humor for as long as he can remember. An active author, recording artist and teacher, he has recorded seventeen CDs and written twenty books with themes including Appalachia, Civil War, railroad, cowboy, pioneers, gospel, bluegrass and old-time music. In his spare time, he likes show more to play banjo, fiddle, guitar or mandolin on the front porch of his family's remote 1880s log cabin show less
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