Pete Seeger - Casey Jones

Pete Seeger
Song Name: Casey Jones
By: Pete Seeger ( Pete Seeger )
Song Local Name: Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
Album: If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle
Link to buy: Discogs
Genre: folk music of United States of America , American folk music
Date Added: 22 Aug 2019
Yuri Bonilha
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Pete Seeger (United States of America) Casey Jones
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    Casey Jones by Pete Seeger is part of folk music tradition in/by United States of America. Folk Music of United States of America is traditionally brother to some other region(s) in the world. If you want to listen to song(s) in the same genre or with the same root with Casey Jones (or folk music of United States of America), other than checking United States of America you can also check music of Africa, Ireland, Canada, Australia. From the top menu, first choose the desired region and then find the link from the map or country list.
    Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, and environmental causes.

    Casey Jones is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered another train ahead of them on the line, and how Jones remained on board to try to stop the train as Webb jumped to safety.

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