Popularity in Japan
This song is a very familiar nursery rhyme in Japan, with the same melody but different title and different lyrics. It is known as "Senro wa tsuzuku yo doko made mo (線路は続くよどこまでも?)", meaning "The railroad continues forever". The Japanese lyrics describe the happiness of the journey.
NHK introduced this version of the song in 1967 in a TV program called Minna no Uta ("Everyone's Songs").
This tune is used at the stations on the Hanshin Electric Railway Lines (except Umeda Station and Osaka Namba Station) to announce arriving trains and is similarly used at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Line (for Kamigori and Himeji) and the Ako Line (for Banshu-Ako) of West Japan Railway Company.
Read more about this topic: I've Been Working On The Railroad
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