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Heard this song from the Kingston trio on my grandparents’s CD. We just wrote “Number Nine Coal” from this old folk song. Jim Croce sings it better though!

Great cover. 0:38

Very GNARLY song! wish there was a chord sheet for it! Jim Croce's the best!

Jim did it so fine...

My cousin turned me onto JC in the early 70s. I still get tears in my eyes everytime i hear his songs AND his stories we need to hear him now more than ever A talent like his must never be forgotten.

I had a cope of this in 1972

This song hits especially hard for me due to the mention of the coal miners. In the steam era, there were many shortline railroads in my area build exclusively to move coal. The Montour, Pittsburg and Shawmut, Cambria and Indiana, etc. All of them replaced their steam locomotives with diesels in the early 1950s, and the steam locomotives were all cut up for scrap. Very few steam locomotives survive from the western PA coal haulers. As a resident here born long after the age of steam was over, i can only imagine what it would have been like to see these engines under steam...

Nice and beautiful song ❤

What a beautiful, talented soul Maury was. I cry when I hear certain of his song, such uncertainty of himself, he was amazing. As my years gather pace now, I often wonder what Maury would be doing now musically. Love to Maury and Jim x

I did not know Jim did this one. Very different style than his other stuff. I love it. Thanks for posting.

As a man that lives in the former gentlemen's apartment. I know nothing of this man's mind but love. You can hear it in the eves, in the sunset, but more importantly in the singing back to Her voice

Ten thousand thumbs up!!

My father introduced me to this Song of the Sixtees, he liked It very much.

My grandfather used to sing this to me all the time now it brings back good memories and happy tears

It was fifty years ago today (September 20, 2023) that Jim Croce died. RIP.

Croce-50 years gone today...and Lightfoot passed on May 1 2023... RIP

Closing in on 50 years gone for Jim and Maury. 💔 I have this on vinyl but haven't had a turntable for many years - had forgotten this one.

Play this to any woman you want to.

This & Big Fat Woman, the greatest songs in the history of mankind.

Don’t play this to your wife.

I'm sure this will be canceled next

This is high art if I ever heard it. It truly sounds like a historical novel in the form of a piece of music. It has a timeless, American West quality that ive rarely heard (authentically) from any other artist.

I love the implication that while Din may go to hell for being a heathen-the protagonist's going there too for being a piece of shit.

I had no idea Jim Croce had recorded this song. As long as people are nominating their favorite versions, I'll give a vote to The Mitchell Trio. ruclips.net/video/rpvAgk8unMw/видео.html

this song just gets more accurate every year, doesn't it? maybe someday the railroads will return

I never noticed the reference to roller derby queen until now (refrigerator with a head). Great!

Love the kazoo solo!

Beautiful and haunting, 50 years in September since he left us. Thank You for sharing!

I got this LP as a Christmas present in 1975. Thank you for uploading it, it is very special to me. Jim was one of a kind and so talented.

He is one of the 🐐’s of all time to me.

My favorite Jim song

Love this music 🎶🎵🙌❤

i have this album in vinyl

The bass in this is ridiculous. Kinda wish the rest of this album had similarly intricate and pronounced basslines

Big hit for Dave Dudley 1963

The best..Jim

great song. Even better than Judy Collins version.

Yep, this one’s for u traitor

I love this song so much. Reminds me of an old love. Jim is amazing

The one and only thing I remember from the George Carlin Show. I had to look it up to make sure it was real!

Love this song so much. Just wish I could find tabs on it.

Será que eu sou o único brasileiro?

Takes me back!

Nice modulation and a change of modes. I find those mode changes to be a challenge to sing. In most pop music we're so accustomed to singing notes that fit neatly in the chordal framework.

Un maldito accidente se lo llevó y nos privó de su música. Te adoro Jim. Y a Merle también, porsupuesto.

Ehrenmann!

That's me

Sweeeeeet

Never knew he played with the kingston trio?

A true American treasure…Gone to soon