The Gandy Dancers' Ball Lyrics

chorus:
[Oh, They dance on the ceiling and they dance on the wall
At the Gandy dancers' Ball. Hey!
Swing around, swing around, swing around the Jimmy John.
Swing around, swing around the Jimmy Jimmy John.
Swing around, swing around, swing around the Jimmy John,
Swing the pretty girl around the Jimmy Jimmy John.]
A gandy dancer is a railroad man
and his work is never done
With his pick and his shovel and his willing hand he
makes the railroad run.

There's Mackinaw Mack and Toledo Jack
and the boys from Idaho
and the Frisco Kid and Saginaw Sid
and good old Cottoned-eyed Joe.

chorus
The boys will gather at the great affair
The Gandy Dancers' ball
Kissing the ladies with the perfumed hair
and prancing 'round the hall

They got the biggest band in all the land
And the rhythm rocks the room
And they hollow out with a mighty shout
when the big bass drum goes "Boom"

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The railroads bring them to the great affair
The Gandy Dancers' Ball
And every line is represented there
The big ones and the small

There's the MKT and the old SP
and the Lehigh Valley too
The C&K and the Sante Fe
The Southern and the Sioux

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They dance all day and they dance all night
They all dance till the broad daylight
At the Gandy Dancers' Ball