Zack, the Mormon Engineer

DESCRIPTION: Zack, the Mormon engineer, has a wife in every town along the D&RG, and so refuses to change lines.
AUTHOR: S. L. Samson? (source: Briegel, 44 Old Time Mormon and Far West Songs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1932 (Briegel, 44 Old Time Mormon and Far West Songs)
KEYWORDS: marriage railroading humorous train
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 179-181, "Zack, the Mormon Engineer" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Botkin/Harlow-TreasuryOfRailroadFolklore, p. 444, "Zack, the Mormon Engineer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 265-266, "Bishop Zack, the Mormon Engineer" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 76-77, "Bishop Zack, the Mormon Engineer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 604, "Bishop Zack, the Mormon Engineer" (1 text)
DT, ZACKMORM*
ADDITIONAL: Tristram P. Coffin and Hennig Cohen, _Folklore in America: Tales, Songs, Superstitions, Proverbs, Riddles, Games, Folk Drama and Folk Festivals_, Doubleday, 1966, p. 88, "Bishop Zack" (1 text)
Roud #4761
RECORDINGS:
L. M. Hilton, "Zack, The Mormon Engineer" (on Hilton01, ClassRR)
Art Thieme, "Zack, The Mormon Engineer" (on Thieme03)
NOTES [80 words]: Said to be based, loosely, on the life of one Zack Black who worked on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. The tune is loosely based on "Oh, Susanna."
The attribution to S. L. Samson comes from Briegel, 44 Old Time Mormon and Far West Songs, and is followed by Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest. The music is attributed to "Marcia." Thanks to mudcat user cnd for verifying this. Given the lack of authoritative documentation, I have marked it with a question mark. - RBW
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File: BRaF444

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