Songs about Engineering

Greetings,

Has "The Runaway Train" been noted yet?

Regards

Brian B

Or , Bridge over Troubled Waters ?

"The First Rebreather" by Big Big Train is about the recovery of the flooded Severn Tunnel in 1880. Not a song for the claustrophobic.

Brian G

Edit: Link to song and lyrics

Edited By Brian G on 24/02/2022 09:33:11

Richard digence - SHIRLEY, loosely involves a machine ! Credence clear water,ROLLING, on the river, PROUD MARY, but what is proud mary, is it the boiler, that keeps burning is it the engine, or what ? Noel.

I thought that song was funny when I was a lad, but it's gross and bloody-minded.

Last train to San Fernando

If I had a hammer.....

Sailing

Two songs in Durch, both by "Ed & Willem Bever" (both from "de Fabeltjeskrant", a a Dutch children's television series featuring puppetry and stop motion broadcasted in the seventies).
See: **LINK**

Stoomlied (Steam Song):
YouTube: **LINK**
Song Text: **LINK**

Hup, daar is Willem met de waterpomptang (Whoops, there is William with the water pump pliers):
YouTube: **LINK**
Song Text: **LINK**

Enjoy !

Regards from The Netherlands, Gep

Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters

"Bleedin' radar crew, bin usin' my spanners for stirrin' their tea."

;O)

Martin

Hi Noel, Proud Mary in the song is a Riverboat Proud Mary But started of as a women working as a maid for rich people.

Regards Nick.

screw that I'm outta here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZWiHQOhKBc

Diesel Power from the Fat of the Land album by Prodigy

Early Einstürzende Neubauten songs had a very industrial sound, much of the sound was produced with scrap metal.

Mike

As I recall, "an engineer told me before he died" is the first line to a song simply called "The Engineer's Song"

It features twice on an album released 1965(?) Rugby Songs Vol 2 by the Jock Strapp Ensemble on Surprise Records ILP 1012.

Looking at it now brings back a lot of memories.

Would I play it again - yes

Dare I - no!

Edited By Keith Hale on 24/02/2022 12:32:09

Good grief! 52 replies. This will take a while to read...

Neil

"Balloons were easy, a simple pin, or a knife in the case of the zeppelin "

The children's TV animation Chigley had various engineering songs.

I've just disappeared down a rabbit hole watching it... Here's an episode which has a song about the life of a Post Office Telephone Engineer, and one about a mechanical digger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIUhaEpM_bA

starting at 1 hour 48 minutes. It's got real telephone bells too!

George

Edited By Georgineer on 24/02/2022 18:16:23

Edited By Graham Stoppani on 26/02/2022 07:45:55

Stretching the brief slightly.

Bernard Cribbins ; Right Said Fred.

Perhaps it captures the sentiments and though processes of our hobbyist engineering end of the spectrum. Imagine an evening achieving little in the workshop,comple with head scratching and multiple cups of tea.

......... and in the same vein "Fixing a hole" by The Beatles.

This is getting silly now!

John

Edited By John Hinkley on 26/02/2022 11:50:26

Time for my contribution then!

The chuck on the lathe goes round and round
Round and round
Round and round
The chuck on the lathe goes round and round
All day long

The ways on the lathe go swish, swish, swish
Swish, swish, swish
Swish, swish, swish
The ways on the lathe go swish, swish, swish
All day long

The belts on the lathe go up and down
Up and down
Up and down
The belts on the lathe go up and down
All day long

The motor on the lathe goes flash, bang, pop
Flash, bang, pop
Flash, bang, pop
The motor on the lathe goes flash, bang, pop
All day long

The bloke on the lathe goes what the hell
What the hell
What the hell
The bloke on the lathe goes what the hell
All day long

Sung to the tune of "Buffalo Gals". In this version Mr Bruce Springstein has forgotten my words.

Any resemblance to a well-known nursery rhyme is purely coincidental...

Dave