I've been working on the Railroad - Paul Tremaine & Orch.

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  • 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!
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  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 7 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    Much closer to the original than today's child's song.

    • @grimxy7451
      @grimxy7451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yup

    • @Cessna-er4je
      @Cessna-er4je 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Couldn't agree more, you can't get better than the classics

    • @jesseleeward2359
      @jesseleeward2359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah it's not really a kids song

    • @MrJack-uk2hp
      @MrJack-uk2hp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yea, this should be they only version of this song that should exist!

    • @a_smolroach
      @a_smolroach 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jep

  • @trythewine1633
    @trythewine1633 7 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    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.

    • @mikeytrains1
      @mikeytrains1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      trythewine Oh yeah they jammed. They jammed so much prohibition became a thing!

    • @scienz
      @scienz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      these were the original pop classics. The melodies still hold up today

    • @joelouie5649
      @joelouie5649 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Speak easys, flappers, al capone!

    • @StetzMusic
      @StetzMusic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What’s your take on John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt ? Lmao

  • @yanbigtimeinc7698
    @yanbigtimeinc7698 9 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    I've had this song stuck in my head for days ....it didn't stop until I listened to it ....Thank GD

    • @mrzebra67
      @mrzebra67 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yan bigtimeinc me to but it didnt stop

    • @Starchicken-bi3ck
      @Starchicken-bi3ck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Days I had this song stuck in my head for years. Every time I’m working without music I hum this song

  • @JackGero-hd6mo
    @JackGero-hd6mo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It’s been four long years
    Finally, I found it 😮😊

  • @Leo_jam15
    @Leo_jam15 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I heard it for the first time in nursery. Today after 22 years I'm listening to the original and it feels quite emotional.

  • @georgewashington6877
    @georgewashington6877 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Now that's real Americana music right there:)

    • @valerie7236
      @valerie7236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yup. real racist song. love amerikkka 😋

    • @Joe-sc8fu
      @Joe-sc8fu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      valerie chacón how is it racist

    • @cocobrowny
      @cocobrowny 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 😪😪😪

    • @josephtoscano7398
      @josephtoscano7398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@valerie7236 Where do you wanna go?? Give up your citizenship and I'll pay your plane ticket!

    • @isd4154
      @isd4154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@valerie7236 almost like every country is "racist" 😋

  • @xxalex423xx
    @xxalex423xx ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "the beat goes ssoooooo hard
    this beat goes in"
    - railroad workers in the studio, circa 1929.

  • @Ryan-hb7ur
    @Ryan-hb7ur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I use to sing this song at my school back in 2017 man I miss those times

  • @brand1nn943
    @brand1nn943 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This reminds me of when I was younger. I used to love trains and listening to old songs like this.

  • @cocobrowny
    @cocobrowny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    1:23 my favourite part! Makes me shake my body down 💃🏾

  • @MsChocolateTHunda
    @MsChocolateTHunda 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    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.

  • @krittar7567
    @krittar7567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Honestly insane that this is almost 100 years old.

  • @mcmikey2
    @mcmikey2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Just realized the Eyes of Texas sounds good exactly like this

  • @johnelmosadsad4009
    @johnelmosadsad4009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This song just automatically played in my head so here I am to memorize it 🤣

  • @mick0matic
    @mick0matic 13 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Best fucking version so fucking far ive klicked and i klicked a lot!!!!

    • @jamesward3572
      @jamesward3572 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mick0maticNL wow 5 years ago

  • @detectivewiggles
    @detectivewiggles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Lowkey offended that nobody ever told me this song was such a banger originally

  • @orangejuiceman
    @orangejuiceman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've been looking for something like this for years.

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great musicians. Thanks.

  • @unknownname882
    @unknownname882 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I came here because my sister was singing this and got it stuck in my head

  • @Ashberryvillage10
    @Ashberryvillage10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every generation remembers this

  • @edmondscott7444
    @edmondscott7444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Marvellous.

  • @barkasz6066
    @barkasz6066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is about ten million times better than Despacito.

    • @DesertPunke
      @DesertPunke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      András Agócs but 10 million times 0 is still 0

    • @scienz
      @scienz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      despacito is pure shit i really dont understand why ppl like that song so much.

    • @emmecee6273
      @emmecee6273 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      People keep mentioning that song over and over...

    • @cocobrowny
      @cocobrowny 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Emme Cee Yeah man, which is especially annoying as the song is as stale as 3-times reheated roast turkey meat

  • @Delta62onhalo
    @Delta62onhalo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Is that a picture of Glenn Miller at 0:32?

  • @MogamiK32
    @MogamiK32 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have been looking until for this for a while and Finally I FOUNDED IT! YAY :D

  • @lillyb7280
    @lillyb7280 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this song

  • @MatheusMS23
    @MatheusMS23 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Looney Tunes

    • @kathleenabbu8553
      @kathleenabbu8553 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks..I keep thinking where did I heard this song

  • @doubleghod
    @doubleghod 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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.

  • @Dunsiti
    @Dunsiti 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mom would always sing this to my sister.

  • @bph.8
    @bph.8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Cara al sol xdxd

    • @davidcorral5714
      @davidcorral5714 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Siempre que silbo esta cancion, alguien me lo dice :D

  • @PoetryETrain
    @PoetryETrain 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, added to a playlist...

  • @1secondarysmile
    @1secondarysmile 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    how did you find this song?

  • @Parkman3614
    @Parkman3614 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was looking for this song when my friend played this song in his Roblox server. XD

  • @adriancastaneda1693
    @adriancastaneda1693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ryuji and Morgana are man of culture.

  • @marcd3659
    @marcd3659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Eyes if Texas are upon you!!!
    Hook’em Horns!!!🤘🏻

  • @MrJack-uk2hp
    @MrJack-uk2hp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:29 is my favorite part!

  • @brandonscott946
    @brandonscott946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:57 casual blackface is casual

  • @xmoiox_
    @xmoiox_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If you are from Spain then you know which song it is.
    PS: I'm Spaniard too.

    • @planet_jedi
      @planet_jedi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Del barco de Chanquete... no nos moverán ;)

    • @xmoiox_
      @xmoiox_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@planet_jedi Me refería al Cara al Sol xddddd

    • @planet_jedi
      @planet_jedi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Se parece también, pero la de Chanquete bastante más aún XD

  • @m_5373
    @m_5373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Woody Woodpecker

  • @carlospablo9571
    @carlospablo9571 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Woody Woodpecker.

  • @ajweberman
    @ajweberman 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    hear that lonesome whistle blow

  • @lucyannanixon7714
    @lucyannanixon7714 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THANK YOU STEAM PUNK AND NEW ZEALAND PLUNKET

  • @gaeloco780
    @gaeloco780 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    es el cara al sol

  • @Awakeninghumanzombies247
    @Awakeninghumanzombies247 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I AM WHO I AM!!!
    🦁🧑‍⚖️🏰

  • @DGatsby
    @DGatsby  15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Both of you are quite welcome.

  • @gelmibson883
    @gelmibson883 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woo!

  • @cramildo100
    @cramildo100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Joseph Joestar!!!

  • @generaltophat5877
    @generaltophat5877 ปีที่แล้ว

    Swiss's Great Locomotive chase brought me here.

  • @breezeynaz
    @breezeynaz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    BOO! Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo.......ICU_____________________________________________________________

  • @junarrailwaygroup2891
    @junarrailwaygroup2891 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1000/12

  • @TheKimKwon
    @TheKimKwon 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    boy-scout.....meal time song

  • @markericsonsalvador9988
    @markericsonsalvador9988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can anyone tell me the first four stanzas of this version?
    I can only make out
    "I was born in..."
    And
    "....sundown"

    • @metro3041
      @metro3041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "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

  • @zielmaegaje1242
    @zielmaegaje1242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2018 and still listening to this 😂😂😂

  • @MarkDoesRBLX
    @MarkDoesRBLX 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    *This reminds me of the time when I fighted 1 air bending buff vampire....*

  • @blbreptiles4126
    @blbreptiles4126 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've had to come here after watching the cosby show again

  • @TrainsAndGupFans
    @TrainsAndGupFans 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    0:25 cass city branchline

  • @ricardovazquez9113
    @ricardovazquez9113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vannoss brought me here

  • @kainoahowell5646
    @kainoahowell5646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:28

  • @jinxinternet
    @jinxinternet 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yowza!

  • @gabrielandrade447
    @gabrielandrade447 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    O barbeiro de shevilha

  • @kabacheouiza3566
    @kabacheouiza3566 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    it has the same rythme as heilli heilo heilei !!

  • @Tommy-sj6uo
    @Tommy-sj6uo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Go Jonny ca$h rip

  • @leehplaygames
    @leehplaygames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Vim pelo Pica Pau no episódio presuntos defumados kkkkk

    • @lucasz420
      @lucasz420 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      vim pelo barbeiro de Sevilha

  • @morganbach2277
    @morganbach2277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1st part of the lyrics???

    • @coloradongguy
      @coloradongguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What I got from this: "I was born in oak town, I'm working on the levee"

  • @soundofpollutionproduction3386
    @soundofpollutionproduction3386 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think i have to make this song my intro

  • @MontoFAR
    @MontoFAR 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been working on the railro... *German sniper shots Sowosko*

  • @kainoahowell5646
    @kainoahowell5646 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:33

  • @marcgorter8651
    @marcgorter8651 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember this song from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Bugs sang it, I think.

  • @tonymontana822
    @tonymontana822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Elmer fudd ??? :D

  • @karlosx8
    @karlosx8 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1929? jeasus.

    • @JessJess347
      @JessJess347 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      karlosx8 it’s actually 1894

    • @emmecee6273
      @emmecee6273 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JessJess347 the recording is from 1929 dude.

    • @zacharylink538
      @zacharylink538 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In 2020 XD

  • @lollmao5
    @lollmao5 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Persona 5 anyone? =P

  • @mikeytrains1
    @mikeytrains1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Anyone else here from the Cass City Branchline Stories?

  • @jazzstandardman
    @jazzstandardman ปีที่แล้ว

    Y'all realize who Dinah is, don't you?

  • @robertomy9789
    @robertomy9789 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I came here by Jojo
    xMattia

  • @jrexx2841
    @jrexx2841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm Thomas and I've been working on the railroad

  • @WillAdamsmusic
    @WillAdamsmusic 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    sounded like Tram on C- melody.....

    • @RatPfink66
      @RatPfink66 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @modsurbanosnl1697
    @modsurbanosnl1697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Cass City Branchline stories anyone?

  • @Herzeleydt_Diesentrueb
    @Herzeleydt_Diesentrueb ปีที่แล้ว

    1:05 Is that really a five string ???

    • @BariSings
      @BariSings 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @vitoramaralvitao596
    @vitoramaralvitao596 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Quem aí veio por causa do pica pau no episódio " presunto defumado"?? 😂😂😂😂

  • @Tubes78
    @Tubes78 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:56 what the actual F 😵

    • @gonzocroww
      @gonzocroww ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I'm sayin

    • @michelegeren3413
      @michelegeren3413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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...

  • @cumsalot
    @cumsalot 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bugs Bunny brought me here.

  • @Y0ungD0ug
    @Y0ungD0ug 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shotgun Willy brought me here

  • @deadchannel2811
    @deadchannel2811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All on broad the Trump train!

  • @mr.patriotjol
    @mr.patriotjol 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jojo reference

  • @barneyjuniorYT
    @barneyjuniorYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only kids from the 1910's would get this 😔✊

  • @nathanwillow
    @nathanwillow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well would be nice if the singers could be hear

  • @ajweberman
    @ajweberman 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    crappy

  • @eugenia628
    @eugenia628 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    whoo hoo on the whoowhoo train whistle boogie