Our Singing Country

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	Our Singing Country
	4  Well, five young men had broken the railing And robbed them of their load, ?Twas the worst old wreck that we ever did see On the old, old Somerset Road. 5  We will settle down in some lonely forest And live there all alone, But the last man found was the dead conductor On the old, old Somerset Road. Alternate Chorus: Was a sad farewell when we heard the signal As the brakeman dropped the pin, He come out and give us the signal As he backed the old train in.
	THE WHITE HOUSE BLUES B. No. 1523. Ace. on guitar and sung by Maynard Britton, Clay County, Ky., 1937. For a variant, see "Cannonball Blues," by the Carter Family, Perfect No. 7055. When McKinley was dead and Roosevelt in the White House drinking from the silver cup, the people thought the matter over slowly and made up a song to mourn McKinley's death. When the song was done, it did not speak of the crowds at his bier, the flags at half-mast or of thunderous salutes to symbolize their sorrow, but, instead, put the Cannonball Express on the road from Buffalo to Washington, tearing down through Maine, screaming out the sad news to America with its shrill whistle, snorting its sympathy in its steam valves.