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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.

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