American Ballads and Folk Songs

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	American Ballads and Folk Songs Dead an' gone, dead an' gone, Kase he's been on de cholly * so long.
	And here are the verses that the old man could remember long dead Wallis Sanders singing: On a Sunday mornin' it begins to rain, 'Round the curve spied a passenger train, Under de cab lay po' Casey Jones, He's a good engineer, but he's dead an' gone, Dead an' gone, dead an' gone, Kase he's been on de cholly so long. * "On de cholly" is equivalent to "out on the hog," or "on the bum." [38]