Down by the Station

"Down by the Station"
Song
Written 1948
Writer Lee Ricks, Slim Gaillard
Recorded by Slim Gaillard, Tommy Dorsey, The Four Preps, The Wiggles (under the song title "Pufferbillies")

"Down by the Station" is a popular song written by Lee Ricks and Slim Gaillard in 1948, and most famously recorded by Tommy Dorsey. The song remains popular today as a children’s music standard. The opening lines of the song are: Down by the station, early in the morning, see the little pufferbellies all in a row. The song itself is much older than 1948; it has been seen in a 1931 Recreation magazine.[1]

Whether deliberately copied or not, the tune is very closely related to the chorus of the French/Canadian folk song "Alouette".[2]

The Four Preps recorded a version of the song in 1959, featuring an entirely different set of lyrics by group members Bruce Belland and Glen Larson.

References

  1. The Mudcat Cafe
  2. The Mudcat Cafe
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