It's funny how there are slight variations to effectively the same tune. I
wonder if there were many verses and we heard and remembered only a few.
Geographic location may also play a part in the differences. I grew up in
the Far Western Suburbs of Chicago. How about you other gentlemen?
Do any older former railroad employees know the origin of the lyrics for
this ditty?
Keith Nystedt
Home Lending Officer
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"Making More Possible"
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<jonathanharris@ear To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
thlink.net> cc:
Sent by: Subject: [CBQ] Dvorak the
Railfan (was Oiling the Rails)
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
08/19/2007 09:59 PM
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CBQ
That's closer to the version we knew:
Passengers will please refrain
>From flushing toilet while the train
Is in the station. Baby, that means you!
We encourage constipation
While the train is in the station,
But as soon as it goes, you can too.
As Stephen says, the ditty was set to music by Dvorak (a piano piece called
"Humoresque,"
IIRC). As he also points out, the Czech composer was a railfan - apparently
a huge one. He
was in the US from 1892 to 1895, serving as director of the National
Conservatory of
Music in New York City (this is when he composed his famous "New World
Symphony").
Dvorak's being here was a really big deal, as he was enormously famous and
admired. His
annual salary of $15,000 was huge for the time. Awestruck students and
other musicians
came from all over to visit him. They would go to his office to talk to the
Great Man about
their compositions, but (so the story goes) Dvorak would never let them get
started until
he had thoroughly pummeled them for information about every locomotive they
had seen
or ridden behind on their way there.
jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie Lyngdal" <MyTrainStuff@...> wrote:
>
> I remember a version that went:
>
> When the train is in the station
> We encourage constipation
> Harvest moon is shinning
> I love you.
>
> Very truly yours,
>
> Bernard J Lyngdal
> dberniel@...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen J. Levine
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re:Oiling the Rails
>
>
> The music was by Antonin Dvorak, a Czech composer, who coincidentally was
a railfan.
>
> keith.nystedt@... wrote: This subject line reminds me of a song I sang as
a kid. The
lyrics were:
>
> Passengers will please refrain,
> from flushing toilets while the train,
> is sitting in the station, I love you.
>
> If upon the pot you sit,
> you must remember not to s##t,
> while sitting in the station, I love you.
>
> Keith Nystedt
> Home Lending Officer
> LaSalle Bank Home Lending Center
> 139 N. Cass Avenue
> Westmont, IL 60559
>
> Direct Line: 630-241-6422
> Cell Phone: 630-881-5596
> Fax: 630-964-0309
>
> keith.nystedt@...
>
> www.tipsformortgage.com/knystedt
>
> "Making More Possible"
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