Down By The Station

Album

Down By The Station

Label

Capitol Records

Genre

Folk

Composer(s)

Paul Mills;Slim Gaillard

Entered Chart

Dec 28, 1959

Peak Date

Feb 15, 1960

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Capitol 4312

B-Side

Listen Honey (I'll Be Home)

"Down by the Station" (also known as "Down at the Station") is a popular song written by Paul Mills and Slim Gaillard and first recorded by The Slim Gaillard Trio in 1947.[1] The song was most famously recorded by Tommy Dorsey in 1948.

Down by the station early in the morning

Met a little girl about as cute as she could be

I turned on my charms and told her that I loved her

I said that she would always be the number one for me

She'd always be my number one girl

I said there'd be no number two or three



Down in the malt shop shortly thereafter

Met another girl about as cute as she could be

I looked for number one and when I didn't see her

I told number two she was the only girl for me



Went to the drug store and nearly lost my life

There I saw my girlfriends, one and two

Standing there together, I knew I was in trouble

But I'm a clever guy I knew what to do



I went on down by the station early in the morning

I was wooing women as cute as they could be

But then I saw another girl lookin kinda pretty

I said I'm through with one and two

I love you number three

I said I love you number three

And here's what she said to me



Just head on down by the station early in the morning

Catch yourself a trolley car that goes into the sea

I want a love that's true sir, not a love like you sir

You weren't true to one and two

You won't be true to me



Down by the station early in the morning

See the little puffer-bellies all in a row

See the station master pull the little handle

Chug, chug, woo, woo, off they go



(Repeat and fade on 2nd repeat)