![]() Mainly Norfolk gives a flavour of its history in folk. In eighteen hundred and forty one, me corduroy breeches I put on Me corduroy breeches I put on, to work upon the railway, the railway Im weary of the railway, poor paddy works on the railway.The earliest reference I can find is 1858, from the evidence presented at a prosecution of an unlicensed Music Hall: Morning Chronicle (London) Dec 27 1858 I have at least one report of it being sung as a sailor’s work song. I have found articles in British newspapers showing that a song called Paddy on the Railway was being sung by amateur and professional singers from the beginning of the 1860s. It may be this which led him to being described as “an Irish stage singer”. I can find no evidence that he visited America, but he may well have performed this song in a way which played up the stereotypes of Irish labourers which were prevalent at the time. We know that JB Geoghegan came from Salford, and lived in the North of England for most of his life. I have not been able to find a copy of this… Digging ditches pulling switches dodging hitches. When Daniel O’Connell he was alive and workin’ on the railway. Also see Camelot, duration, release date, label, popularity, energy, danceability, and happiness. Norman Cazden in Folksongs of the Catskills suggests a song of this name “was popularised by the Irish stage singer JB Geoghegan” and that sheet music was published by Oliver Ditson in Boston 1854-56. I’m weary of the railway poor Paddy works on the railway 3: In eighteen hundred and forty five when Daniel O’Connell he was alive. Key & BPM for Paddy on the Railway by Luke Kelly. However there is some evidence that it was originally written and/or performed by JB Geoghegan. It is often referred to as being “traditional” or written by an anonymous author. Paddy on the Railway Lyrics: In 1841 me corduroy breeches I put on / Me corduroy breeches I put on / To work upon the railway, the railway / I am weary of. ![]() This is a song appears regularly in the repertoire of both North American and British folk singers, sometimes as a shanty. Bad cess to the luck that brought me through
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