Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Day 230 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

"The crying out loud is heard here; over smash-ups, head-on collisions, cow-catchers telescoped in cabooses, the iron horse meeting a broken rail and taking a tumble down an embankment, the undertakers' harvest that came after someone was asleep at the switch the crying out loud is heard here. ...

"It is the landlubber brother of the sailor windlass song A Hundred Years Is A Very Long Time. . . ."