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"The Ballad of Casey Jones", also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" or simply "Casey Jones", is a traditional American folk song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered ...
The music was written by Jerry Garcia, and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter.Hunter stated in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone that "'Casey Jones' didn't start out as a song, it just suddenly popped into my mind: 'Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones, you better watch your speed.'
Casey Jones's fame is largely attributed to the traditional song, “The Ballad of Casey Jones”, [7] [18] also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer", recorded by, among others, Billy Murray, Mississippi John Hurt, Harry McClintock, [19] Furry Lewis, Johnny Cash, Ed McCurdy, and played live by the Grateful Dead, as well as Jones' friend ...
"Casey Jones—the Union Scab" is a song, written by labor figure Joe Hill in San Pedro, California, shortly after the first day of a nationwide walkout of 40,000 railway employees in the Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. [1] It is a parody of the song "The Ballad of Casey Jones" and is sung to its tune.
The Ballad of Casey Jones", a c. 1909 folk song about the railroad engineer "Casey Jones" (Grateful Dead song), a 1970 song by the Grateful Dead, also about the railroad engineer; Casey Jones (band), a straight edge hardcore punk band from Florida
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Joe Walsh's 1973 song "Rocky Mountain Way" features the lyrics "Bases are loaded/ And Casey's at bat/ Playin' it play-by-play/ Time to change the batter." In 2008 American composer Randol Alan Bass used the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Alfred Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth in Casey at the Bat , a setting of the poem for concert band and ...
Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month ban from tennis to settle a case which has lingered over the sport for months after he twice tested positive for a banned substance, the World Anti-Doping ...