Track". It has since been recorded by many others, including Dave "Snaker" Ray and Taj Mahal. The bassist Fred Turner of the rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive wrote a song called "Little Gandy Dancer" that appeared on the group's first album in 1973. See also Field hollers List of train songs Military cadence Railroad shopmen Sea shanties Waulking songs Work songs Notes External links Calling Track and Military Cadence Calls: How an African American Tradition Influenced Military Basic Training Vintage gandy dancer video Memory.loc.gov John and Ruby Lomax 1939 recordings "Negro Work Songs and Calls" Library of Congress The James Jordan Buck Music history and comments on the labor. Notes on the term's origin. African-American work songs Ribbons of Rail – Maintaining modern American railroads Railway occupations Obsolete occupations American folk music Industrial Workers of the World culture https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98817595/1913-gandy-dancer-first-possible-print/