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Posted May 02, 2008 by Duke Ellington
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Choo Choo
by Duke Ellington


Duke Ellington says: I've seen a lot of trains in my day. In fact trains were my home for half my life. I wrote 3,000 songs in my lifetime, and most of them I wrote riding to the next town. This was recorded by my first band The Washingtonians in 1924.
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