2:45
single, 1949
Written by Jonny Tyler?
With a nasal twang akin to that of Webb Pierce or Chubby Parker, Tyler belts out this novelty swing number with gusto and some theatrical fake hiccuping. The narrator is a drunk who pleads with the bartender to let him in ("I'll settle for a beer"), noting that a woman's perfidy led him down the road to inebriation. The punchline of the song is that he was once the train engineer! Ha ha! He probably caused a terrible crash!
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