Jerry, Go and Oil that Car: Harry K. (Haywire Mac) McClintock
This is from Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways.
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February 15, 2011 at 1:49 pm
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February 25, 2011 at 8:45 pm
In this form, at least, it’s datable to post-1876, for the tune is identical to Braham & Harrigan’s “Are You There, Moriarity?” which was first sung in the music halls in that year. (No one has ever, that I know of, ever disputed that David Braham wrote the tune.)
February 26, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Marchbanks,
I hadn’t ever heard the music before under any name. I guessed it was old, but I didn’t know how old.