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Nana Mouskouri regarding The Train. Life's a lonely, painful, slow burn?

 

It's a slow train
But it's moving on
I've got my ticket
Don't don't pass me by
If I don't get on ooh
I'll break right down and cry
Only got a one a life
To live on this earth
Oh get me there
Won't you please
Conductor sir
It's a slow train
But it's moving on
Now everybody got a ticket
You you and me
It's up to you to catch the ride
That's how its got to be
Everyone oh yeah
Has to prove he's a man
Oh make it easy
On yourself
'Cause there's no helping hand
It's a slow train
But it's moving on
 
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14 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Talkin' 'bout "Ballin' the Jack" 

 

a popular song from 1913, it introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." It became a ragtime, pop, and trad jazz standard, and has been recorded hundreds of times (!!!!) by many prominent artists.

 

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"Around the same time the song came out, the expression "ballin' the jack" was used by railroad workers to mean "going at full speed." 'The 'Jack' was the slang name for a railroad locomotive, and balling meant going at high speed, itself derived from the ball type of railroad signal in which a high ball meant a clear line."

 

https://www.liveabout.com/balling-the-jack-404534

 

https://www.americanbluesscene.com/the-language-blues-balling-the-jack/

 

Ballin' The Jack - Played by Prince's Band - 1914 Columbia Grand Prize Record

 

 

Chicago Footwarmers - Balling The Jack 1927 - Jazz

 

 

Ballin the jack -Salty Dog Four (1930)

 

 

 

Jelly Roll Morton & The Red Hot Peppers » Ballin' the Jack (1939)

 

 

 

Judy Garland & Gene Kelly - Ballin' the Jack from For Me and My Gal (MGM, 1942)

 

 

 

Ballin' the Jack · The Chordettes (1950)

 

 

 

Ballin' The Jack · Sidney Bechet (1951)

 

 

 

Osmond Brothers - Ballin' the Jack (1963) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Pearl Bailey - Ballin' the jack (1957)

 

 

Ballin' the Jack [Haunted Honeymoon (1986)] -Glida Radner Dom Deluise Gene Wilder

 

 

 

Iving University awards your Doctorate in Ballin' The Jack, Dr. christopher3393.

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