Will Fox

DESCRIPTION: Engineer Will Fox has his fireman shovel on a little more coal to set "this Moore girl" and bring him a little more gin. He says they will stop in a bar at the end of the line
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1940 (USWMcTell01)
KEYWORDS: railroading drink parody
FOUND IN: US(SE)
Roud #17670
RECORDINGS:
Blind Willie McTell, "Will Fox" (on USWMcTell01)
NOTES [72 words]: A non-disaster song parodying all the railroad wreck songs in which the fatal move is made when the engineer tells his fireman to "shovel a little more coal."
Allan Balfour's liner notes to USWMcTell01: "Moore" girl probably referred to "the locomotive which ran on the Moore Central Railroad in North Carolina. Fellow Georgians Andrew and Jim Baxter recorded 'The Moore Girl' for Victor in 1927 referring to the same train." - BS
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