[Harp-L] She caught the Katy

[Joseph Leone]

> On Sep 4, 2018, at 1:29 AM, Jerry Deall <jdeall at xxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Not only that Joe, but the blues is the reason we are not a metric nation.
> 
> It's every inch of my love not every centimeter and I'm walkin' a mile for my baby, not a kilometer……

OR..how about 16 tons instead of 14,515 kilograms?  As I sit here eating my 0.453 kilo cake…. with strawberries. 

Smo-Joe  (I’m Jaoquin, yes indeed. And I’m Talquin, bout you and me.)
> 
> So the metric system just isn't poetic, and we are after all, a poetic nation.
> 
> Jerry Deall
> SPAH Secretary
> SPAH 2019 is August 13-17, @ the Grand Hyatt Tulsa, OK.
>  
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: 3N037 at xxxxx
> To: harp-l at xxxxx
> Sent: 2018-09-03 7:23:51 PM 
> Subject: [Harp-L] She caught the Katy
> 
> I keep trying to slip away but YOU GUYS keep dragging me back.
> Last couple days have been researching this ‘Katy' thing and it occurred to me that I had never really thought of Texas when I thought blues. And Kansas? never happen. I always thought
> of Kansas with all the great saxophone players who used to gather in Kansas City in the 30s. But they played jazz. Missouri? yeah I guess because of St. Louis. 
> 
> I wondered why the composer picked that particular train. I would have thought that “She” would more likely jumped on a train on the east side of the Mississippi. On her way to…maybe Chicago.
> Like isn’t La., Miss., Tenn., a bit more blues oriented and a focus of lots of blues stories? Then it hit me like the proverbial Led Zeppelin. I tried several OTHER railroads and none of them fit the song. 
> On top of that, guess what? The Katy DID end up in Chicago. If you had a mind to go there. Wow, mystery solved. 
> 
> Smo-Joe  (p.s. Hey Madcat..I think I was wrong. That locomotive looks more like a 2-6-0 ‘mogul’ class. Probably made by Baldwin. Twin double expansion cylinders, 1500 h.p.)