The ballad of John Axon : a radio-ballad about the railwaymen of England /
SCD 366 Sound Library
MacColl, Ewan
The ballad of John Axon : a radio-ballad about the railwaymen of England / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. - Topic Records, 1999. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc. First released by Decca in 1965. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 2/7/1958, produced by Charles Parker. Musical instruments: trumpet, clarinet, concertina, harmonica, trombone; double-bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin.
1. John Axon was a railway man -- 2. It was 4 a.m. that Saturday -- 3. The iron road is a hard road -- 4. It doesn't matter where you come from -- 5. The rain was gently falling -- 6. Come all you British loco men -- 7. The repair was done -- 8. I may be a wage slave on Monday -- 9. Come all you young maidens -- 10. Steam train, steam train -- 11. Under the large injector steam-valve -- 12. The engine had reached the distant signal -- 13. On the 3rd of May 1957.
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