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  • Re: Australian railway songs

    From Terry O'Grady@tcsexpress77@gmail.com to aus.rail on Mon Oct 30 03:37:05 2023
    From Newsgroup: aus.rail

    On Tuesday, December 5, 2000 at 12:51:35rC>PM UTC+10, David Bromage wrote:
    I think this has been discussed before, but I can't find the thread in the archives or on deja.com.
    Has anybody made a canonical list of Australian railway songs? Off the top
    of my head I can think of:
    Indian Pacific, by Joy McKean. Recorded by Slim Dusty (ARPA song of the
    year and top selling country song of 1978.) Recently re-released by The Bushwackers.
    The Ghan, by Ted Egan.
    Jolly Green Giant, by Johnny Ashcroft.
    3801, by Ray King and Ron Russell. Did they write any others?
    A heap by the late Alan Rowe.
    - The Puffing Billy Song
    - The Beechie
    - The Deepdene Dasher
    - Riding in the old Z van
    - The aren't and they shan't 'cos they can't.
    Queensland Railway Line (trad?)
    Morningtown Ride, by The Seekers.
    The Train Song, by Nick Cave.
    Cheers
    David
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