It probably is not about the underground railroad. The train goes into New Orleans, which would not be the way to freedom for a slave. It seems to literally be about an unscrupulous engineer skipping a tariff. Great song though.
This hit by Lonnie Donegan would finish at #50 for the year, 1956. On July 9, 1955, Bill Haley and His Comets hit #1 with Rock Around the Clock, signifying the start of the Rock Era. On April 21, 1956, Elvis Presley hit #1 with Heartbreak Hotel, shooting this new sound into the stratosphere.
Pig Iron - The traditional shape of the molds used for these ingots was a branching structure formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner. Such a configuration is similar in appearance to a litter of piglets suckling on a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots (the pigs) were simply broken from the much thinner runner (the sow), hence the name pig iron.
Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with a high-carbon fuel such as coke, usually with limestone as a flux. Charcoal and anthracite have also been used as fuel. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%,[1] which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications. Wiki
Pig iron: a railroad term to the solidifyed iron they used. They called it Pig iron because at the time, pig was considered poor man meat,and pig iron was cheap metal
Im sorry but the description is just horrible. "Pig iron" is not slaves. it refers to illegal imports (guns, gambling equipment, alcohol). This is a chain gang song, not an underground railroad song. Thus I am disliking this video.
This is a great song. Funny Paul McCartney is the one who showed me this song, now i'm trying to learn it on guitar. Personally i like Paul's version better that's the one I'm learning. But they don't make music like they use to :)
This guy was Scottish, the forefarther of Rock N Roll, out of Skiffle, in the UK. My understanding of this song was that there was a heavy tax on moving iron across frontiers in America, and the engine drivers used to declare any cargo except pig iron to avoid the taxation. The song comes from an engine driver who had just fooled Customs.
It sounds right when you look at it in this light. We will never know what Lonnie was actually singing about now.....But a great song.
He injects so much energy and fun into his songs- its a devil to sing at his speed, just try the chorus. LOVE IT. Like Pick a bale of Cotton and Battle of New Orleans his versions beat the pants off the rest , yes sireeeeee!
Of course, the closest the C.R.I.& P. got to New Orleans was Eunice LA-- but, you're not supposed to know that. Still, it's a fun song, even if there was no rail toll bridge in N.O.
When iron is tapped from the blast furnace it goes into troughs, one long one and smaller ones coming from it, these resemble young piglets feeding from the mother sow - hence the name pig iron - I know I worked there for 46 years!!!
I worked for the now defunct Rock Island line (Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) in their Kansas City, Kansas yard in the mid-1960s. Too bad it's no longer around!
My grandfather worked on the Rock Island Railroad till his death in 1970, seven years before I came around. I've always had a soft spot for this song because of him, because I know it was a song he liked as well.
This is a great song but it's not about the underground railroad... The song was written by a convict in Alabama in the early 1900s- nearly half a century after it would have happened. Lead Belly picked it up from him while he was working as a driver for John Lomax in Louisiana.
Don't let that detract from the bluesy nature of it: it's a song written by a convict about tax evasion on the railroad. Don't get more bluesy than that.
To those who don't know Rory, he was basically a blues irish musician inspired by the older blues-folk artists & highly respected by the likes of Dylan/Lennon/Clapton.
Does some mean fucking electric-blues & slide work, definitely worth the look
The best ever. I said a fooled you, I fooled you, I got pig -iron, I got pig-iron, I got aaaaaaaaaaaallllllll pig irrrrrrrooooooooonnnnnnnnn. The rock island line is a mighty good road!
So the rock island line is a mighty good road, rock island line is the road to ride, yea.. the rock island line is a mighty good road , get your ticket at the station for the rock island line
Abcwxyz cat in the corner and you dont see me! God I need some pig iron
what a fuckin tune!!!! yee ha. And i hope youre sayin that dylan is better than the beatles. Cos this dude is incomparable to the beatles or dylan . Very influential even though it may not sound apparent immediately
I love lonnie. I had never ever heard him until a saw an advert on telly with this tune. It was a car surfing. Dont remember the car manufacturer at allbut i sure as hell found out who done the song. It was rock island line by l donegan
@viktorvaldemar I don't know, I listened to them both, they're both extremely good, but this version puts an interesting twist on it with the weird British/American South sounding accent, extremely distinctive voice like I've never ever heard before.
I use to play this record over and over and over again when I was a kid. My Birth Father use to be an auctioneer........So, it's a joy to hear this one again for fun. :)
My sister had the original 78 record and it sounded a lot better than this ,I remember it being played hour after hour as a young kid on an old wind up record player along with Bill Haley and the Rockets playing ''Rock around the Clock'' !!
pig iron means iron ore. Only live stock could pass the big toll gate at no charge. So the driver shouted out all his live stock he´d got on board and missed out the goods he'd had to pay for.
There's the further point that live stock had to be delivered quickly before any of the animals died. Live stock had the highest priority of any freight, sometimes even higher than passenger trains.
Sorry ,have I missed something ,cant recall the Beatles ever playing this one and even if they did at their early gigs,well it was not a hit or ever in the charts,perhaps you can enlighten me on your comment ?
What I mean is, Lonnie Donegan gained fame with this song, and proceeded to record Cumberland Gap. John Lennon heard Cumberland Gap and was inspired by that to create a Skiffle Group, better known as the Quarrymen. From there, the rest is history.
Oh ok,yes I can see what you meant now,did you or do you like the Beatles then ?
They were more my era than lonnie Donegan .I thought the Beatles were the best ever and I feel a lot better than whats about today.Some of the words in their songs were so meaningfull ,sheer poetry !!
Leaving home ,64 etc so much about life and emotions all combined with wonderfull tunes .
In the song "Rock Island Line" the term "Pig Iron" is railway slang for contraband Slot Machines. Hence the "toll" or "bribe" for the man who wanted to know "what was on board". The whole song is a metaphor for "Do Unto Others, then Run Like Hell!"
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Crude iron obtained directly from the blast furnace and cast in molds (see cast iron). The crude ingots, called pigs, are then remelted along with scrap and alloying elements and recast into molds to produce various iron and steel products
The Rock Island Line on February 22, 1854, became the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River.
The'underground railway' smuggling escaped slaves to the north started at Station No 1. Quincy. Illinois, on the banks of the Mississippi. This song probably refers to helping escaped slaves on their way to freedom. You'll need to google 'underground railway' to find out the rest.
Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with coke, usually with limestone as a flux. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.54.5%,[1] which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications.
I first heard this when i was a child and my Dad was playing along in the kitchen, to the album on his clarinet-great accustix in the washing up bowl!It still makes me smile and want to dance 20 years on, and my daughter listens to it now!!
I may be right, I may be wrong, but wasn't John Lennon inspired by the popularity of Lonnie Donegan to form a skittle band? Without Lonnie, we may never have had The Beatles.
He fooled us all. I taught he was American(rock iron Line), (Battle of New Orleons). Then I Think he's English, (My old man'S a Dustman), but then I remember he's Irish. And noboby loves like an Irishman!!! R.I.P
I'm an American who wants to thank Donnegan for his contributions not only to British music and rock and roll, but music in general, paving the way for the great musicians who came after him. He was a true original, and his music remains alive today.
Nice to know the man was appreciated in the States too. I was sixteen when this came out and it totally blew me away. Managed to see him a couple of times, always the complete pro.
This was Lonnie Donegan while he was a banjo player in the Chrish Barber Jazz band. After a session of recording, they left the mike open and the 18 year old Donegan, recording this son gin 2 takes. You can hear mostly the second take , pretty good eh?
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It probably is not about the underground railroad. The train goes into New Orleans, which would not be the way to freedom for a slave. It seems to literally be about an unscrupulous engineer skipping a tariff. Great song though.
abramtaylor1 2 weeks ago
nice vibrato sound
stuart1648 1 month ago
He's got pig iron...he's got pig iron...he's got aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll pig irrrrrrrrrrrrrrrron.....
Derby14 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
This is not the original by Lonnie Donegan which came out in 1956. It's a remake.
FredCDobbs00 2 months ago
@FredCDobbs00 Yes. Made after he left the Chris Barber band. The Barber version is better.
maolchalium 2 months ago
This hit by Lonnie Donegan would finish at #50 for the year, 1956. On July 9, 1955, Bill Haley and His Comets hit #1 with Rock Around the Clock, signifying the start of the Rock Era. On April 21, 1956, Elvis Presley hit #1 with Heartbreak Hotel, shooting this new sound into the stratosphere.
mkl62 2 months ago
Pig Iron - The traditional shape of the molds used for these ingots was a branching structure formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner. Such a configuration is similar in appearance to a litter of piglets suckling on a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots (the pigs) were simply broken from the much thinner runner (the sow), hence the name pig iron.
maolchalium 2 months ago
Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with a high-carbon fuel such as coke, usually with limestone as a flux. Charcoal and anthracite have also been used as fuel. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%,[1] which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications. Wiki
maolchalium 2 months ago
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Zentraleinheite 1 week ago
Pig iron: a railroad term to the solidifyed iron they used. They called it Pig iron because at the time, pig was considered poor man meat,and pig iron was cheap metal
madasylum1 2 months ago
this iz a pya tune!!!!! ked you know what am sayin tho
Saskatchewan00 3 months ago
Indeed...disliking a video because of the description despite the fact that the song kicks ass makes a lot of sense...not.
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Im sorry but the description is just horrible. "Pig iron" is not slaves. it refers to illegal imports (guns, gambling equipment, alcohol). This is a chain gang song, not an underground railroad song. Thus I am disliking this video.
linksgard2 3 months ago
@linksgard2
your both wrong. Pig iron is poorly made steel made by mixing steel with carbon. Look it up
MrWaterlionmonkey 3 months ago
@linksgard2
At the time you had to pay a toll for transporting industrial goods
MrWaterlionmonkey 3 months ago
I like this song a lot but doesn't Mr Donegan sound a little bit like a South Park character in the beginning??
Derby14 4 months ago in playlist Liked
This is a great song. Funny Paul McCartney is the one who showed me this song, now i'm trying to learn it on guitar. Personally i like Paul's version better that's the one I'm learning. But they don't make music like they use to :)
BoyGeorge84 4 months ago
Butters Stotch has grown up.
MagnificentFiend 4 months ago
THE BEST VERSION BY A COUNTRY MILE !
FULL STEAM FROM START TO FINNISH !
alistermatheson 4 months ago
This guy was Scottish, the forefarther of Rock N Roll, out of Skiffle, in the UK. My understanding of this song was that there was a heavy tax on moving iron across frontiers in America, and the engine drivers used to declare any cargo except pig iron to avoid the taxation. The song comes from an engine driver who had just fooled Customs.
It sounds right when you look at it in this light. We will never know what Lonnie was actually singing about now.....But a great song.
BuntsLever 4 months ago
He injects so much energy and fun into his songs- its a devil to sing at his speed, just try the chorus. LOVE IT. Like Pick a bale of Cotton and Battle of New Orleans his versions beat the pants off the rest , yes sireeeeee!
JDibden 5 months ago
Pig Iron was also slang for cheap, unreliable guns made from the crude pig iron. I'm somewhat inclined to think that that's what the song is about.
Yermog 6 months ago
Lonnie Donegan was an inspiration to Paul McCartney
steved410 7 months ago 5
@steved410 so great to see another person who knows this lol thats amazing
BoyGeorge84 4 months ago
this is amazing song..
raphel623 7 months ago
lol i <3 this song
Snakenumber9 7 months ago
One story is that "pig iron" was gambling machines
dickhembo2 7 months ago
@dickhembo2 Or it could have been slaves escaping?
ROCKISLANDLINE1 6 months ago
I spent hours practicing this many years ago. I can still sing it!!
gonescotch 7 months ago
CIVILIZATION IV shows Lonnie's genius!! But you have to pay close attention!! RIP to the KING OF SKIFFLE!! Long live your memory!!
Schiefthunder 7 months ago
Fantastic. I'd forgotten what a great record this is.
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mherbert 8 months ago
Great song and cool history behind it. Thank you for posting this!
AllSingingAllDancing 8 months ago
Of course, the closest the C.R.I.& P. got to New Orleans was Eunice LA-- but, you're not supposed to know that. Still, it's a fun song, even if there was no rail toll bridge in N.O.
BenAliGtor 8 months ago
When iron is tapped from the blast furnace it goes into troughs, one long one and smaller ones coming from it, these resemble young piglets feeding from the mother sow - hence the name pig iron - I know I worked there for 46 years!!!
nicoalphalpha 9 months ago
holy crap AWSOME so fast so coooooooool :D
shannonXmcmayo 9 months ago
i got sheep, i got all livestock, i got pig iron!! u legend. Ive also hold the slavery thing mentioned. Who knows. Ask Lonnie himself
drew23ski 9 months ago
i got sheep, i got all livestock, i got pig iron!! u legend
drew23ski 9 months ago
one of my late mums favourite songs x
noosmum 9 months ago
Have you got any PIG Iron ???
legendofthelol 9 months ago
Rock Island Line!
0YTMan 10 months ago
I worked for the now defunct Rock Island line (Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) in their Kansas City, Kansas yard in the mid-1960s. Too bad it's no longer around!
FoxRunMan 11 months ago
3:00-3:10 is possibly my favorite moments in music ever.
kyleduddy 11 months ago
My grandfather worked on the Rock Island Railroad till his death in 1970, seven years before I came around. I've always had a soft spot for this song because of him, because I know it was a song he liked as well.
Beshter 1 year ago
This is a great song but it's not about the underground railroad... The song was written by a convict in Alabama in the early 1900s- nearly half a century after it would have happened. Lead Belly picked it up from him while he was working as a driver for John Lomax in Louisiana.
Don't let that detract from the bluesy nature of it: it's a song written by a convict about tax evasion on the railroad. Don't get more bluesy than that.
utopianfiat 1 year ago
This is not as raw or as raciuos as his original version.
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
" i fooled you, i fooled you, i got pig iron, i got pig iron, i got all pig iron"
JBwizzy92 1 year ago
I was inspired to look-up this song after playing "Civilization IV" - Lonnie Donegan sings it much better than Leonard Limoy!
;-)
BuzbyWuzby 1 year ago 9
Rory Gallagher plays on this :).
To those who don't know Rory, he was basically a blues irish musician inspired by the older blues-folk artists & highly respected by the likes of Dylan/Lennon/Clapton.
Does some mean fucking electric-blues & slide work, definitely worth the look
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
First song i ever got paid for playing live in 1964.....!!! On washboards .....of course...!!! Thank You for this.....Now where's me thimbles......bj
bamjimba 1 year ago
lonnie donegans best seller was does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight.
LW2335 1 year ago
The best ever. I said a fooled you, I fooled you, I got pig -iron, I got pig-iron, I got aaaaaaaaaaaallllllll pig irrrrrrrooooooooonnnnnnnnn. The rock island line is a mighty good road!
So the rock island line is a mighty good road, rock island line is the road to ride, yea.. the rock island line is a mighty good road , get your ticket at the station for the rock island line
Abcwxyz cat in the corner and you dont see me! God I need some pig iron
drew23ski 1 year ago
The best ever. I said a fooled you, I fooled you, I got pig -irn, I got pig-irn I got all pig iron
drew23ski 1 year ago
This is Ace
skeletor647 1 year ago
Lonnie is a white man thinkin he's black, but in a good way. Not eminem way
drew23ski 1 year ago
10 people must be employees of the Rock Island's rival railroads.
tngjstn 1 year ago
im only 24 but i do love this song !
furberline 1 year ago
love this mad bastard
drew23ski 1 year ago
This song is about smuggling slot machines, once known as "Pig Iron", because they ate money like pigs.
GlassDeviant 1 year ago
Takes me back to my misspent youth running cigs out of Calais,
LaggerJohns 1 year ago
what a fuckin tune!!!! yee ha. And i hope youre sayin that dylan is better than the beatles. Cos this dude is incomparable to the beatles or dylan . Very influential even though it may not sound apparent immediately
I love lonnie. I had never ever heard him until a saw an advert on telly with this tune. It was a car surfing. Dont remember the car manufacturer at allbut i sure as hell found out who done the song. It was rock island line by l donegan
drew23ski 1 year ago
what a fuckin tune!!!! yee ha
drew23ski 1 year ago
might be right might be wrong u i know u gonna miss me
iandragon 1 year ago
pretty lame compared to Leadbelly's original
viktorvaldemar 1 year ago
@viktorvaldemar I don't know, I listened to them both, they're both extremely good, but this version puts an interesting twist on it with the weird British/American South sounding accent, extremely distinctive voice like I've never ever heard before.
goldsmice 1 year ago
I use to play this record over and over and over again when I was a kid. My Birth Father use to be an auctioneer........So, it's a joy to hear this one again for fun. :)
LittleBirdPathfinder 1 year ago
DYLAN WAS BETTER,NICE TRY LONNIE.R.I.P.
MRBLINDBOYGRUNT 1 year ago
My sister had the original 78 record and it sounded a lot better than this ,I remember it being played hour after hour as a young kid on an old wind up record player along with Bill Haley and the Rockets playing ''Rock around the Clock'' !!
lovemetu 1 year ago
Is it true that "pig iron" means Slaves ?
sakax 2 years ago
Nope,
pig iron means iron ore. Only live stock could pass the big toll gate at no charge. So the driver shouted out all his live stock he´d got on board and missed out the goods he'd had to pay for.
pipier100 2 years ago
@pipier100
There's the further point that live stock had to be delivered quickly before any of the animals died. Live stock had the highest priority of any freight, sometimes even higher than passenger trains.
Ambidexter143 1 year ago
no, it means iron.
JulieTheCyborg 2 years ago
@sakax No it mean pig iron
Agent47Generation 2 years ago
This song made the Beatles.
oneUNITED7SS 2 years ago
@oneUNITED7SS
Sorry ,have I missed something ,cant recall the Beatles ever playing this one and even if they did at their early gigs,well it was not a hit or ever in the charts,perhaps you can enlighten me on your comment ?
lovemetu 1 year ago
What I mean is, Lonnie Donegan gained fame with this song, and proceeded to record Cumberland Gap. John Lennon heard Cumberland Gap and was inspired by that to create a Skiffle Group, better known as the Quarrymen. From there, the rest is history.
oneUNITED7SS 1 year ago
@oneUNITED7SS
Oh ok,yes I can see what you meant now,did you or do you like the Beatles then ?
They were more my era than lonnie Donegan .I thought the Beatles were the best ever and I feel a lot better than whats about today.Some of the words in their songs were so meaningfull ,sheer poetry !!
Leaving home ,64 etc so much about life and emotions all combined with wonderfull tunes .
lovemetu 1 year ago
I figured Within You Without You was by far one of their most intriguing songs. The instrumentation makes me feel like a bird, I must say.
oneUNITED7SS 1 year ago
This version is better than the more popular recording.
mplayer98 2 years ago 10
this is the most popular version by a long shot, the reason people look at leadbellys original version is out of curiosity.
this song pretty much defined british music and rock and roll..
released late 1955... made the top 10 in the uk and the usa in 1956
26highstreet 2 years ago
I memorized the words to this when I was 16 (long time ago) and couldn't wait for it to come on the radio (in the car) so I could sing along
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ratty522 2 years ago
Isn't it the Celtic Rock Festival near Cardigan this week end?
maolchalium 2 years ago
iechyd da
annyambo 2 years ago
Proud to be Welsh homes!
JahLion82 2 years ago
I've only just discovered Lonnie Donegan, but this is the most amazing rendition!
JProctor37 2 years ago 7
In the song "Rock Island Line" the term "Pig Iron" is railway slang for contraband Slot Machines. Hence the "toll" or "bribe" for the man who wanted to know "what was on board". The whole song is a metaphor for "Do Unto Others, then Run Like Hell!"
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ClTIZEN 2 years ago 3
I heard this for the 1st time today on the BBC Radio 2 Steve wright show and loved it straight away that's why I was looking for it tonight.
Oldies are the best :)
Ed (34) Glasgow.
mitziebitzie 2 years ago
Pig iron is a type of metal. The 109 SP Howitzer I drove in the Army in the early 1970's was made out of pig iron. I agree with "maolchalium".
JazzBill 2 years ago 4
great great good only joking adsolotly brilleant
rorycoco122 3 years ago
brilleant
rorycoco122 3 years ago
Crude iron obtained directly from the blast furnace and cast in molds (see cast iron). The crude ingots, called pigs, are then remelted along with scrap and alloying elements and recast into molds to produce various iron and steel products
maolchalium 3 years ago 5
@maolchalium ur all wrong pig iron is slot machines
bearshit27 8 months ago
johnny cash said it meant slot machines. mechanics have told me difrent. i guess everyone has there own meaning 4 words
eli22r 3 years ago
i could be rong . johnny cash said slot machines . i had mechanics tell me thats what it is. i guess everyone has ther own meanings 4 words
eli22r 3 years ago
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eli22r 3 years ago
I LOVE this song. This presentation is superb. I grew up by a railroad track and played this game over and over and over again!
LittleBirdPathfinder 3 years ago
this is the best recording of it, .. got some emotion
ally451 3 years ago
The Rock Island Line on February 22, 1854, became the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River.
The'underground railway' smuggling escaped slaves to the north started at Station No 1. Quincy. Illinois, on the banks of the Mississippi. This song probably refers to helping escaped slaves on their way to freedom. You'll need to google 'underground railway' to find out the rest.
maolchalium 3 years ago 4
Alternatively some sneaky asshole trying to get out of paying extra.
Not everything needs some deep meaning ya know?
NecrosisOfLight 3 years ago
@maolchalium ur right im from ri and there is alot of under grond rr all in the houses here
cdltt83 1 year ago
Guess how many fags with too much time can google "pig iron"........? too many...
sweeman22 3 years ago
pig iron is intermediate product of smelting iron ore with coke, usually with limestone as a flux. Pig iron has a very high carbon content,
neilrw86 3 years ago
who cares what pig iron refers to, its a might good road nonetheless:) sod it, great song
TBKainerz 3 years ago
i think we better consult ledbetter about what it was about
00ron75ooo 3 years ago
Great video!
vinylstellen 3 years ago
Thanks a lot - I'm a great fan of Viv too!
jazzfanjohn 3 years ago
Now i know how this originaly goes now.
As all i had as reference was Stan Freeberg's 78 on my dads radiogram as a kid.
wildwombat 3 years ago
'Pig Iron referred to slot machines or other gambling instruements in this song...
jwamlingsoc 3 years ago
Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with coke, usually with limestone as a flux. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.54.5%,[1] which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications.
soulpower1974 3 years ago
but in the vernacular of New Orleans, pig iron referred to slot machines and other gambling devices. It was like calling dice 'bones.'
jwalabama 3 years ago
why would a freight train in this case ship slot machines and does this song have anything to do with New Orleans?
soulpower1974 3 years ago
The Rock Island Line ran FROM new Orleans, and smuggled slot machines were common.
jwalabama 3 years ago
what'ya got on board there boy?
merch1892 3 years ago 2
Love the way he says that
LadyCayenne 3 years ago
This song gives me the chills.
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!
LadyCayenne 3 years ago 3
mint song, sad bastard video, get out! get a shag, get her pregnant then punch her in the stomach
kevape 3 years ago
Oh dear. Got girl friend problems have you kevape?
madwelshlive 3 years ago 2
I first heard this when i was a child and my Dad was playing along in the kitchen, to the album on his clarinet-great accustix in the washing up bowl!It still makes me smile and want to dance 20 years on, and my daughter listens to it now!!
bethlovesjohn 3 years ago
i prefer the johnny cash cover
conformistkiller666 3 years ago
andi lern schreiben
JeffHardyzBiggestFan 3 years ago
this is e song sog from a erman car tv spot 5*****
undertaker1111111111 3 years ago
Kewl :D
grumpygrim 3 years ago
Amazing song ;D
First time I heard this was on a home video of me when I was like 4.
But I still love it xD
Tetzork 3 years ago
skiffe is where rock n roll started, no skiffle no rock n roll. long live skiffle.
KingsfanUK 3 years ago
We never had skiffe in America,why do this guy keep playing leadbelly songs?
oramikleepunk 3 years ago
because he liked them, had been influenced by Leadbelly and found them easy to adapt to a skiffle style likewise with Woody Guthrie songs.
00dacousin 3 years ago
no he was an irish londoner born in scotland
heybodiddley 3 years ago
i think thats faster than johnnys
littlejarhead2001 3 years ago
my dad loves this i do now
kenttaylor333 3 years ago
Absolutely great.My then fiancee & I saw him in concert at Nottingham Empire some 50 years ago
RupertKat 3 years ago
walress
lonnie was born in glasgow,hardly irish!!!!
polerise 3 years ago
this song is my favourite
AirFlightGuy 3 years ago
my big sister went out with his son for 3 years
tonibbzxx 3 years ago
I may be right, I may be wrong, but wasn't John Lennon inspired by the popularity of Lonnie Donegan to form a skittle band? Without Lonnie, we may never have had The Beatles.
JAG312 3 years ago
Make that SKIFFLE, not skittle. God damn candy commercials!!
JAG312 3 years ago 3
lmaoooo!
Tetzork 3 years ago
CHUGGACHUGGACHUGGA How bout that, the Rock Island Line makes it Wales.
Twinhit 3 years ago
He fooled us all. I taught he was American(rock iron Line), (Battle of New Orleons). Then I Think he's English, (My old man'S a Dustman), but then I remember he's Irish. And noboby loves like an Irishman!!! R.I.P
Walress1980 3 years ago
No, he's Scottish
helene05 3 years ago
He sed I FOOLED YA; I FOOLED YA; I GOT PIG IROOON I GOT PIG IROON!!!!
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my dad sings that everyday.... its worrying
Lol X
xbooxux 3 years ago
I'm an American who wants to thank Donnegan for his contributions not only to British music and rock and roll, but music in general, paving the way for the great musicians who came after him. He was a true original, and his music remains alive today.
TheCardCheat 4 years ago 10
Nice to know the man was appreciated in the States too. I was sixteen when this came out and it totally blew me away. Managed to see him a couple of times, always the complete pro.
123rexc 3 years ago
@TheCardCheat
Testify!
leone7227 1 year ago
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Im 14 years old and i love it!
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FantasticCosmo 4 years ago 4
Cash was brilliant but not in the same class as Donegan.
patercake 4 years ago 6
Thank you for David Bowie and George Harrison. Thank you!
webdog6 4 years ago
This was Lonnie Donegan while he was a banjo player in the Chrish Barber Jazz band. After a session of recording, they left the mike open and the 18 year old Donegan, recording this son gin 2 takes. You can hear mostly the second take , pretty good eh?
4wdthinking 4 years ago 2
Great song that I inherited in my dads collection - thanks for the bit of history
minniethe3rd 4 years ago 3
I think you mean you`re gay. learn to write in a manner more in line with an erudite contributer.
4wdthinking 4 years ago
puto estilo
saludos
angus1976 4 years ago
without this guy - no david bowie......work out why yourself
merlin716 4 years ago
how can u say jony cashs is beter this is the origional its ace
phatty1lovesgurl 4 years ago
Is this a live version? It sounds a lot different to the Lonnie Donegan version I've heard. I suspect the version I've heard is the studio version.
mgturbo1300 4 years ago
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JOHNNY CASHS IS BETTER
vampxsehpy 4 years ago
i agree... i prefer cash's...i think its because i prefer his voice to donegans
jayhaych 4 years ago
I prefere Lead Bellys voice to both of them.
almanacofsleep 4 years ago 2
I still like the sonny terry and brownie mcghee version from the "a long way from home" album, but this was... tolerable.
jessupar 4 years ago
It's all about the Stan Freeburg version!!!
LAOPERAMAN 4 years ago
It's TOTALLY about the Freberg cover! Now that I've heard what he was parodying, Freberg's version is EVEN FUNNIER!!
starvart 3 years ago
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spelled honor wrong ...and this guy sounds like he needs to take a piss
boats752 4 years ago
Honour = Britain.
Honor = USA
madwelshlive 4 years ago 8
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Dipshit who posted this can't even spell 'Donegan'. What a fucktard. What an imbecile. What a moron!
FairlyGrrl 4 years ago
Didn t your mother teach you any manners? Evidently not. I see that you don t even have any videos to share, if you did it would probably be just your big fat mouth spewing crap.
Suzito 4 years ago
o-my-god, i LOVE this song! it's sooo funny! xD thanks a lot for posting it! :)
Caylea1984 4 years ago
he's starter of rock? omg...
AxmelXD 4 years ago
Thank you for what I can only saw is we're missing these days
westsaxon 4 years ago
I've only ever heard the Johnny Cash version!
sketchphantom 4 years ago
believe it or not this particular song started R & R
tomi.
23546298 4 years ago
THIS SONG IS GREAT! =)
lio2000 4 years ago
heard this for the first time tonight. Superb.
54minus6 4 years ago