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Lonnie Donegan

Rock Island Line

Rock
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Oldies
  • Space
  • Blues
song from
1956
  • 1956
  • 1955
  • 1954
  • 2012
  • 1958

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“Rock Island Line” is an American blues/folk song written by Kelly Pace and first recorded by John Lomax in 1934 as sung by Pace and other inmates in an Alabama State Prison, and later popularised by Leadbelly. Many versions have been recorded by other artists, most significantly the world-wide hit version in the mid-1950s by Lonnie Donegan. The song is ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The chorus to the old song reads:
The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
The Rock Island Line is the road to ride
The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
If you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line
The verses tell a humorous story about a... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ She's a mighty good road ... Ya, the Rock Island line ... Like you find it ♫

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