Sing Rails: Railroadin' Songs, Jokes & Stories

by Wayne Erbsen

Book Overview

Finally! A low cost book packed with songs and lore of the railroads! This companion to our recording, "Singing Rails: 14 Railroadin' Songs", includes the melody and lyrics to 28 classic sing-alongs... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188320626X
• ISBN13: 9781883206260
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Native Ground Music
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wayne Erbsen's products

I have a collection of Wayne Erbsen's books and CD's, and can only say that it is money well spent. Mr. Erbsen has done his homework. If you think you know it all, listen to one of his CD's or read one of his books. You're going to learn something.

Songs, railroad superstitions, street-car poetry, famous train robberies, & hobo jokes

Native Ground Books & Music is an impressive niche publisher of books and recording in the genre of historic American music, folklore, and cookbooks. No railroading enthusiast will want to miss Wayne Erbsen's "Singing Rails: Railroadin' Songs, Jokes & Stories", which offers 69 pages of songs like Casey Jones and New River Train, or such fascinating tidbits of information that range from railroad superstitions, to street-car poetry, to famous train robberies, to hobo jokes.