![]() Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.) (Music in American Life) says this suggests some ancestral text in existence before 1888. Although there is a version by Chubby Parker, which is longer than the popular version, and a genuine song about railroad life. This is believed to have originated with an Irish comedy team, (Thomas F.) Casey and (Charles) Connelly, in the 1880s. ![]() The tarriers of the title is a mild slur in referencing the workers, drilling holes in rock to blast out railroad tunnels. “Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill” is an American comic folk song composed in 1888 by Charles Connolly and Thomas Casey. HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Refers to the construction of the American railroads in the mid-19th century. ![]() KEYWORDS: work, railroading, hardtimes, talltale, comicĮARLIEST DATE: 1888 (play, “A Brass Monkey” sheet music published by Frank Harding of New York, seemingly without attribution) ![]() AUTHOR: words: Thomas Casey/music: Charles Connolly ![]()
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