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Poor Paddy on the Railway

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This song has been performed by numerous musicians and singers, including Ewan MacColl, Authority Zero, The Dubliners, The Tossers, The Kelly Family and The Pogues.

"Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" is a popular Irish folk and American folk song. Historically, it was often sung as a sea chanty. The song portrays an Irish worker working on a railroad.

There are numerous titles of the song including, "Pat Works on the Railway" and "Paddy on the Railway". "Paddy Works on the Erie" is another version of the song.

In The American Songbag, the writer Carl Sandburg claims that the song has been published in sheet music since the early 1850s. The earliest confirmed date of publication is from 1864 from a manuscript magazine. Ernest Bourne recorded the first version, released in 1941, by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1938.

"Paddy on the Railway" is attested as a chanty in the earliest... (continuer)
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