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The Ballad of Casey Jones, the Glossary

"The Ballad of Casey Jones", also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" or simply "Casey Jones", is a traditional American folk song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.^[1]

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1909 songs
Mississippi John Hurt songs
Songs about Casey Jones
Train wreck ballads

American Industrial Ballads

American Industrial Ballads is a studio album by American folk singer Pete Seeger.

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Anthology of American Folk Music

Anthology of American Folk Music is a three-album compilation, released in 1952 by Folkways Records, of eighty-four recordings of American folk, blues and country music made and issued from 1926 to 1933 by a variety of performers.

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Billy Murray (singer)

William Thomas Murray (May 25, 1877 – August 17, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early 20th century.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.

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Burl Ives

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor.

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Casey Jones

John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

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Casey Jones (Grateful Dead song)

"Casey Jones" is a song by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The Ballad of Casey Jones and Casey Jones (Grateful Dead song) are songs about Casey Jones.

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Collins & Harlan

Collins & Harlan, the team of American singers Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, formed a popular comic duo between 1903 and 1926.

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Elizabeth Cotten

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an influential American folk and blues musician.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk-Legacy Records

Folk-Legacy Records was an independent record label specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world.

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Furry Lewis

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (March 6, 1893 or 1899 – September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Golden Gate Quartet

The Golden Gate Quartet (a.k.a. The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet) is an American vocal group.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States.

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Joe Hickerson

Joseph C. Hickerson (born October 20, 1935, in Highland Park, Illinois) is an American folk singer and musicologist.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Leighton Brothers

The Leighton Brothers (alt. "Leighton and Leighton") was a vaudeville performance team consisting of brothers Frank Leighton and Bert Leighton.

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List of train songs

A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.

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Milt Okun

Milton Theodore Okun (December 23, 1923 – November 15, 2016) was an American arranger, record producer, conductor, singer and founder of Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc.

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Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Paul Bunyan

Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore.

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Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Robert De Cormier

Robert Romeo De Cormier Jr. (January 7, 1922 – November 7, 2017), sometimes known as Robert Corman, was an American musical conductor, arranger, and director.

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Roud Folk Song Index

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

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Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music.

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The Delmore Brothers

Alton Delmore (December 25, 1908 – June 9, 1964) and Rabon Delmore (December 3, 1916 – December 4, 1952), billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneer singer-songwriters and musicians who were stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s.

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Train driver

A train driver is a person who operates a train, railcar, or other rail transport vehicle.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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Wiper (occupation)

A wiper is a position responsible for both cleaning the engine spaces and machinery of a ship and assisting the ship's engineers as directed.

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101 Gang Songs

101 Gang Songs is an LP recorded in December 1960 by Bing Crosby for his own company, Project Records and distributed by Warner Bros. (W 2R-1401) and the RCA Victor Record Club in 1961 with lyric sheets to help the listener join in with the singing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Casey_Jones

Also known as Ballad of Casey Jones, Casey Jones (folksong).

The Ballad of Casey Jones, the Glossary

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See also

1909 songs

Mississippi John Hurt songs

Songs about Casey Jones

Train wreck ballads

References