We Be Dancin’ While The Train Pulls Out
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail. ~~Arlo Guthrie
It was the Royal Mail’s Glasgow to London traveling post office train that they were after. Tampered signals brought the train to a halt and 15 gang members swarmed aboard and subsequently got away with £2.6 million. No guns were used, but the train driver, one Jack Mills, was struck in the head with an iron bar. Mr. Mills recovered, but never did return to work.
Then Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper investigated the crime and became forever after known as ‘Slipper of the Yard’. The lost money was never recovered. Apparently none of the gang talked free.
Mirror in the bathroom
please talk free
The door is locked
just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
that’s got glass tables
You can watch yourself
while you are eating. ~~The English Beat
The English Beat along with Madness, the Specials, Reel Big Fish and many others owe their place in music to Laurel Aitken. Mr. Aitken is said to have founded Ska - no, not the Square Kilometer Array and not Shotokan Karate of America either. Ska, says Wikipedia, has origins in 1950s Jamaica. You should know that this music genre is up tempo so get out your dancing shoes
Of course if you are FINALLY going on that trip to Dingle perhaps you should take along these dancing shoes so you can impress the locals. Its the toe stands we’re waiting to see out of you.
