From the film “The Harvey Girls”, 1945
Words by Johnny Mercer
Music by Harry Warren
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Do yuh hear that whistle down the line?
I figure that it’s engine number forty-nine
She’s the only one that’ll sound that way
On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
See the old smoke risin ’round the bend
I reckon that she knows she’s gonna meet a friend
Folks around these parts get the time o’ day
From the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
Here she comes, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh
Hey Jim, yuh better get the rig, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh
She’s got a list of passengers that’s pretty big
And they’ll all want lifts to Brown’s hotel
‘Cause lots o’ them been travelin’ for quite a spell
All the way from Philadelphia
On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: