Song ID Help

[Loco Bill Canelos]

Hi All,
Recently heard a tune in kind of a storytelling, bluegrass/ country tone that was about an engineer who had a monkey who watched him and learned how to run his loco.  Anyway the monkey steals the locomotive and on the story goes.

I only got to hear part of it.

Anyone ever hear of a song like that?? 

Can you name it??

Thanks, Bill

[cwmeeks]

The Monkey and the Engineer, see many versions of it on YouTube.

here is one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX-pGAMqVrg
Regards

c

[richg]

I was going to post that.
It is rare when I cannot find a song on You Tube.

Rich

[skooksteve]

This song was written by Jesse Fuller a famous one man band from the San Francisco Bay Area. It was most notably covered by The Grateful Dead who did it a lot in their concerts. Jesse also wrote San Francisco Bay Blues which made him famous.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM62iL_Gh2g

[mabloodhound]

The Grateful Dead version is probably the best listening to  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhXrRv_zsPM

[cwmeeks]

I was going to post that.
It is rare when I cannot find a song on You Tube.

Rich

Google is your friend|
c

[Loco Bill Canelos]

Thanks for all the replies and links,  I guess I could have guessed the name was "monkey and the engineer" but that was too simple .

Listened to all the links and found many more!

Appreciate the help.

Bill