Having decided to sing more BC songs in the interest of keeping them living (and because they're just plain great songs about our own home!), I thought I should post the words here once in a while. The Kettle Valley Line was the railway that used to run approximately where the Coquihalla highway is, now.
I seem to repeat the first verse in the middle and at the end, but I don't think that's usual.
I always ride upon the roof on the Kettle Valley Line
I always ride upon the roof on the Kettle Valley Line
I always ride upon the roof
I could pay the fare but what's the use
So I always ride upon the roof on the Kettle Valley Line
I order my meals through the ventilator on the Kettle Valley Line (2x)
I order my meals through the ventilator
Costs the same but you don't have to tip the waiter
So I order my meals through the ventilator on the Kettle Valley Line
I buy a sandwich from the cook on the Kettle Valley Line (2x)
I buy a sandwich from the cook
and he pockets the money, the dirty crook
But I buy a ...
Those railway bulls are gentlemen on the Kettle Valley Line (2x)
Those railway bulls are gentlemen
We'll never see their likes again
But the railway bulls...
They tip their hats and they call you sir on the Kettle Valley Line (2x)
They tip their hats and they call you sir
Then throw you into the local stir
But they tip their hats and they call you sir on the Kettle Valley Line
2 comments:
I like the repeat in the middle. At least if I hear it sung that way in other places, I'll know the lineage comes from you!
thanks, Chris... That's the one thing I can't say I learned from me mother, and I don't sing it that way in her presence! ;-)
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