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Nothing more was heard from him after this, and he is now known only for preserving the legend of Casey Jones. Finally, with vaudeville performers T. Lawrence Seibert credited with the lyrics and Eddie Newton with the music, it was published and offered for sale in 1909 with the title "Casey Jones, The Brave Engineer".
Jones is described as being "high on cocaine" (the song even makes a double entendre of advising Jones to "watch his speed"). It was inspired by the story of an actual engineer named Casey Jones. The engineer's exploits were also sung of in an earlier folk song called "The Ballad of Casey Jones", which the Grateful Dead played live several times.
"Casey Jones—the Union Scab" is a song, written by labor figure Joe Hill in San Pedro, California, shortly after the first day of a nationwide walkout of 40,000 railway employees in the Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. [1] It is a parody of the song "The Ballad of Casey Jones" and is sung to its tune.
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.
The Ballad of Casey Jones", a c. 1909 folk song about the railroad engineer "Casey Jones" (Grateful Dead song) , a 1970 song by the Grateful Dead, also about the railroad engineer Casey Jones (band) , a straight edge hardcore punk band from Florida
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