Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"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. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered ...
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's fame is largely attributed to the traditional song, “The Ballad of Casey Jones”, [7] [16] also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer", recorded by, among others, Billy Murray, Mississippi John Hurt, Harry McClintock, [17] Furry Lewis, Johnny Cash, Ed McCurdy, and played live by the Grateful Dead, as well as Jones' friend ...
"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.
The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, [2] based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. [3] It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling [4] of the story [5] related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert.
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
The Ballad of Casey Jones; C. Casey Jones (Grateful Dead song) Casey Jones—the Union Scab This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 18:30 (UTC). ...
"The Ballad of Casey MacPhee," which depicted Cookie Monster as a heroic train engineer caught in a mountain avalanche) and authentic hillbilly ("It's a Long, Hard Climb, But I'm Gonna Get There" and "My Favorite Letter P" among others) to blues elegies of considerable emotional and tonal complexity, like "New Life Coming" and "Bein' Green."