My learning came from an uncle who lived in Hyde Park while I lived in the next
neighborhood south, Woodlawn.
Bernie
----- Original Message -----
From: bigbearoak
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:30 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Bathroom tunes
South Side of Chicago (Hyde Park), which is where I learned it (in Church,
LOL). That's the
only verse I ever knew.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, keith.nystedt@... wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
>
>
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> "bigbearoak"
> <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
> Please respond to
> 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
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