I've Been Working on The Railroad
                                                                         Traditional

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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
Strumming on the old banjo.

And singing

Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.
Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o-o-o-o.
Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.
Strumming on the old banjo.


 
 
Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad
The Ceremony for theDriving "The Last Spike"
at Promontory Summit, Utah,
May 10, 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
75th Anniversary Issue of 1944
as depicted on a 3 cent U.S. Postage Stamp
Four BNSF GE C44-9W diesel locomotives
hauling a mixed freight train
between
Kennewick and Wishram, Washington State, USA