The last train to San Fernado

There are a number of references to the song but it seems one of the singers of the song about the last train to San Fernando,from Port of Spain,Trinidad,I assume ,was the original Cecil Anderson,I was told the credits to the words were never paid to him,he got paid for the original recording but never for the lyrics.

We had arrived on Ocean Cloud in Trinidad and decided to stay a while,we met some Trinidadians and were taken by car on some day trips,on one of them . I was surprised to know we were in San Fernando its self,when we were being driven around the Island by Diana on a tour of Trinidad,hand delivering invoices to every school on the island for company services rendered,it was the only sure way to know the invoice arrived,such was the state of the island postal service,it took us two days but we sure got to see all of Trinidad in the process!

DUKE OF IRON

REAL NAME: Cecil Anderson

DATE OF BIRTH: 1906

PLACE OF BIRTH: ..., Trinidad

EDUCATION: ...

CAREER: Anderson learned music from his father who was a musician; he went on to play the flute, clarinet, saxaphone, and quatro. He moved to New York, USA, in 1923 where he began playing professionally and, by the late-1930s, had become one of the best-known calypsonians in the USA. He was one of three calypsonians who operated from New York, in the 1940s; the others were Lord Invader and Macbeth the Great. He later formed a band and toured Europe before returning to the USA in 1956 at the height of Harry Belafonte's popularity singing calypso music. He appeared in the 1957 American movie "Calypso Joe" which starred actress Angie Dickinson. During the 1950s and 1960s, he performed regularly at numerous New York nightclubs, and appeared at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theatre. Anderson's calypsoes included:

Man Smart, Woman Smarter; Music Teacher; Man Centipede; Calypso Samba; Woman Police; Merengue Jenny; Big Bamboo; Last Train; Lost Watch; Creole Girl; Undercover Man; The Naughty Fly; Coldest Woman; Woman Love; Tie Up Me Dress; Wide Screen; I Left Her Behind for You; Postman; Parakeets; Druscilla; Walter Winchell; Calypso Invasion; Ugly Woman; Three Friends' Advice; Don't Stop the Carnival; Roosevelt in Trinidad; Fire Down There; Clear De Road; Zets Calypso; Gefeeltah Fish; Rice and Tanya; Song of Cecilia; Monkey See Monkey Do; Sally Waters; Samson & Delilah; Calypso War (with Lord Invader and Macbeth the Great); The GI and the Lady (with Lord Invader and Macbeth the Great); Edward III (with Lord Invader and Macbeth the Great); Happy Land of Canaan (with Lord Invader)

DIED: 1968

Were these  the original lyrics?

Mighty Dictator - Last Train To San Fernando




It's the last train to San Fernando

The last train to San Fernando

And if you miss this one

There'll never be another one

So let's bitty-bitty boom-boom

To San Fernando



Last night I met sweet Dorothy

Said, "Tomorrow I am joining in matrimony."

("Do it now, John!")

She said, "If you act right

You can take me out tonight

And we'll wine and dine but be back on time."



It's the last train to San Fernando

It's the last train to San Fernando

And if you miss this one

There'll never be another one

So let's bitty-bitty boom-boom

To San Fernando



Said, "I'm marrying right into society

Be careful of the place you are taking me

Because if you slip, I'll slide

And I'll never get to be a bride."

And we'll bitty-bitty boom-boom to San Fernando

("What is this?")



It's the last train to San Fernando

("Bitty-bitty-bitty!")

Last train to San Fernando

And if you miss this one

There'll never be another one

So let's bitty-bitty boom-boom

To San Fernando



("Sing it, Keely!")

Diplomatically, I asked Dorothy to dance

("How else?")

There was nothing on my mind but romance

I said to myself, "Oooh boy

Better beat this iron while it's hot."

And we'll bitty-bitty boom-boom to San Fernando



It's the last train to San Fernando

("Hush-a-baby!")

Last train to San Fernando

And if you miss this one

There'll never be another one

So let's bitty-bitty boom-boom

To San Fernando



It's the last train to San Fernando

The last train to San Fernando

(quiet)



Let's bitty-bitty boom-boom to San Fernando!

(loud)

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The lyrics as changed by Johnny Duncan and recorded in 1957,Lonnie Donegan sang the song too.


Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando


If you miss the one, you'll never get another one

Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.



Last night I met my sweet Dorothy

She said, tomorrow I join in sweet matrimony

But if you act all right

Oh, you can take me out tonight

We can wine and dine and get back in time

For the last train to San Fernando.



Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando

If you miss the one, you'll never get another one

Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.



Well, I married into high society

Be carefull of the places you're a-takin' me

'Casue if you slip, I'll slide and I may never be your bride

Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.

Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando

If you miss the one, you'll never get another one

Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.

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