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Chattanooga Choo Choo Lyrics

Artist: Glenn Miller
Album: Chattanooga Choo Choo

CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
Glenn Miller
- from "Sun Valley Serenade"
- words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren

Pardon me, boy
Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?
Track twenty-nine
Boy, you can gimme a shine
I can afford
To board a Chattanooga choo choo
I've got my fare
And just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner
Nothing could be finer
Than to have your ham an' eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
Shovel all the coal in
Gotta keep it rollin'
Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

There's gonna be
A certain party at the station
Satin and lace
I used to call "funny face"
She's gonna cry
Until I tell her that I'll never roam
So Chattanooga choo choo
Won't you choo-choo me home?
Chattanooga choo choo
Won't you choo-choo me home?

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Comments/Interpretations
by andrew on 5/17/2008 7:14pm this is a great song
by Janice on 5/28/2008 6:35am This is a great song and we are singin it for hills festival.
by koala on 6/2/2008 2:26pm we is singin dis 4 our leavers play yeah
by Michaella on 6/3/2008 7:29pm when i was in fourth grade we had to sing celebrate the states songs i am now going into 7th grade and i still love this song
by Sandra Wood on 6/6/2008 9:18am I sing in 'Track 29' harmonising choir and this is our signature tune!
by piper h on 6/6/2008 10:44am hi your such a great song writer and i think dat dis is a fabuolos song xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx blessed be
by tay on 6/8/2008 10:39pm we did this song when we had chours in elementry school
by Robert on 6/26/2008 1:36pm Caroline seems rather angry about the Chatanooga Choo Choo
by Billy bob on 7/9/2008 2:55pm My Great-grandparents met on the chatonngga choo choo. And later on got married.
by fugue on 7/12/2008 2:55pm Actually, the song starts "Hi there Tex, what'd you say?" "Step aside partner; it's my day. Bend an ear, and listen to my version." "Of a really solid Tennessee excursion" also, it's "Can you afford to board", not "I can afford"
by Robby on 7/16/2008 2:14pm Fugue is correct. It's "Can you afford to board" not "I can afford."
by holly on 8/9/2008 10:35am my cousin was singing this song on holiday, and it has really stuck in my mind and it is 'I can afford'
by Zach on 8/22/2008 3:57am Robby and Holly are both right...it just depended on how the song was presented. Sometimes when Tex Beneke sang with the band a group of people, a woman, or another vocalist would sing parts (the questions for example) and he would sing the other lyrics. Actually I think the Tex Beneke version which included the lyrics Fugue mentions, is the best.
by Zylstra on 8/29/2008 3:52pm "Can you afford" To board a Chattanooga choo choo I've got my fare And just a trifle to spare Just a slight correction...
by Deedubb on 9/8/2008 10:12pm This is an example of the racist songs of that era. "Pardon me Boy!?" "Boy, you can gimme a shine!?" Well, at least the melody was nice.
by Hollie on 9/20/2008 4:53am I love this song! It's so cool, wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ladida on 9/23/2008 7:00pm how does "boy" let you know the race of the person being spoken to--white men still called white boys, "boy."
by Hostile on 9/23/2008 7:59pm I'm really feeling Deedubb's comment about the racist mentality of that era exemplified in this song. I just heard it performed by 2 band members of Kiss on Family Guy...which was hilarious and helped me overlook that sad heritage.
by Desiree on 10/10/2008 4:42pm I love this song!!I sang it in 5th grade chorus and I have loved it since. Whoever wrote it is a freaking genius!!
by Sandytoy on 10/18/2008 8:51pm Deedubb is an idiot! If so racist, why say the melody is nice? Don't listen to it then. I like the song! U must be black! LOL!
by Natasha on 10/31/2008 7:02pm Great! Great! The The Sun Valley Serenade and the Song were so popular in the former USSR... My Grams told me :) I love'em too
by LawDawg on 11/6/2008 7:14pm sandtoy is an ass....I can see the racist overtones (and NO, I'm not black!) However, the song is a statement of the times during that era. Lots of folks then just didn't know any better, I hate to say, especially in the south. It's still an awesome song.
by PunxsutawneyPhyllis on 11/13/2008 2:32pm While I can definitely see how the "boy" could actually be a black man, you know there were shoeshine boys who were _white_ too. And the "pardon me boy" part is a very minor part of the song.
by sammysgirl on 12/16/2008 6:29pm I don't think the song is sexist. I did this song in colorguard and some people in my handbell class were in band and we were singing it on the bus today.
by lilza on 12/18/2008 4:38pm i am singing this song for busking in adelaide and isnt it just a great song :) =D
by Paula on 12/31/2008 8:07pm my granny used to sing this to us when we were wee (:
by Paula on 12/31/2008 8:07pm my granny used to sing this to us when we were wee (":
by Cleanteen on 1/20/2009 6:06pm I do not believe this song is racial at all y would anyone even think that! It's a great song and all this raciel crap shouldn't be brought into it.
by Autumn Evans on 2/14/2009 9:21am gotta love a bit of glen. some stupid twits gotta sing this song at a concert and i wasnt even in with a chance. GRR
by Lake on 2/16/2009 10:14am I do not believe this song is racial at all y would anyone even think that! It's a great song and all this raciel crap shouldn't be brought into it.
by James Blunt on 2/24/2009 11:03am gay
by igor on 2/25/2009 6:43am обожаю эту песню, Миллер эпохальная личностьв истории джаза
by Archi on 4/1/2009 2:02pm I sing this song every day at my breakfast!
by anonymous on 4/1/2009 9:09pm OMIGOSH!!!!!!! I'M LIKE TOTALLY SINGING THIS IN THE CHATTANOOGA GIRLS CHOIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yyyyeeeeaaaahhh
by California Kid on 4/23/2009 12:34pm I grew up listening to this sound as my parents were WWII era and played it on weekends all the time. Great song, great tune. In all those times I never got any racial overtone from it. I am sure "boy" refers to just that, a boy -- and not a black man. Miller worked with many black artists of the time and I don't think he would have written or used lyrics that were racial.
by Jean on 5/16/2009 5:22pm I went on a trip on the Empire Builder train from Chicago to Seattle last week & this was one of the songs I brought along on my I-Pod. It fit the spirit of long-distance train travel. I also brought along Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, City of New Orleans, Take The A-Train & Chicago by Frank Sinatra. The classics are wonderful.
by Anon on 6/22/2009 5:55pm My parents said I sang this song just before the WW11. I was about 2 1/2. I only knew the first two lines but I was told I used to sing them and dance on the table. My dad and uncle [killed in the war] taught me it. I still remember although they are dead now. Great song.
by Ashley on 6/23/2009 2:23pm O.M.G we are doing this song for our leavers song!!! It is sooo funny and cheesy!!! Haha !!! Chattanooga choo choo wont you choo choo me home !!! Lol !!!

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