Rock Island Line
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rock-island-line-276-855832
title:
Rock Island Line
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"Rock Island Line" is an American folk song. Ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, it appeared as a folk song as early as 1929. The first recorded performance of "Rock Island Line" was by inmates of the Arkansas Cummins State Farm prison in 1934. The beginning of the most popular version of the song tells the story of a train operator who smuggles pig iron through a toll gate by claiming all he had on board was livestock, but this episode was a later addition not presen
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Traditional song
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Island_Line
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2024-04-18T13:39:24Z
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