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snorkackcatcherLyrics: the last one was What A Crazy World We're Livin' In by Joe Brown and the Bruvvers from 1962, spotted by
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gloryforever (I didn't expect his stuff to have been heard in Mexico!) and lazy_neutrino.This one is even older -- I first heard of it when I saw the aforementioned Joe Brown performing it on some old black and white documentary about railways shown on Channel 4. If anyone knows the date and origins more precisely than I do, I'd like to know!
I was wearing corduroy britches
Digging ditches, pulling switches
Dodging bitches
I was working on the railway
In eighteen hundred and forty two
From Hartlepool I moved to Crewe
And I found meself a job to do
Workin' on the railway, the railway
I'm weary of the railway (c. 1890s?)
