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Poet Carl Sandburg called the song "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" the "greatest ballad ever written". Casey Jones figures in many railroad songs, such as "Freight Train Boogie", by the Delmore Brothers.
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The song The Ballad of Casey Jones was written by [Traditional] and was first released by Billy Murray in 1910. It was covered by Michael Roach, David Johansen and The Harry Smiths, Rory Block, Alice Stuart and other artists.
This song is also known as "Ballad Of Casey Jones" or simply "Casey Jones". John Luther Jones was a railroad engineer - train driver in English parlance - who was killed when his train the Cannonball Express crashed into a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi on April 30, 1900.
Poet Carl Sandburg called the song "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" the "greatest ballad ever written". Casey Jones figures in many railroad songs, such as "Freight Train Boogie", by the Delmore Brothers.
Songs titled “Casey Jones”, usually about the crash or the engineer, have been recorded by Vernon Dalhart (Edison Disc recorded June 16, 1925), This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Feverfew (Blueboy (band)), Tom Russell, The New Christy Minstrels, Skillet Lickers, and the Grateful Dead.
John Lomax, in Folk Song U.S.A., writes: The Casey Jones ballad familiar to most Americans, sprang from Wallace Saunders' song by way, curiously, of the vaudeville stage.
The Ballad Of Casey Jones Lyrics: Come, all you rounders, if you want to hear / The story told of a brave engineer; / Casey Jones was the rounder’s name / A high right-wheeler of mighty fame...
