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Tune Heard At House on the Rock Attraction
By Scotty Greene

Amanda asked about a song her son danced to at House On The Rock.
The song is the Ballad of Casey Jones, about a train engineer and
a train wreck.

If you check Wikipedia they will tell you it was written and performed
by the Grateful Dead.  Wrong, wrong!  It is an American folk song,
origin cloudy, performed by many before the Grateful Dead were even
thought of.  They adapted it and had a hit.  Johnny Cash recorded it,
but he was way down the line from the original recordings made in the
1920s.

Scotty Greene - DeBence Antique Music World
Franklin, Pennsylvania


(Message sent Fri 14 Dec 2018, 14:35:07 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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