On the Wigan Boat Express

"On the Wigan Boat Express" is a comic song written by George Formby, Harry Gifford and Frederick E. Cliffe. Formby recorded it on 4 August 1940 for Regal Zonophone Records. It tells the story of a boat train express heading for Formby's hometown of Wigan in Lancashire. Like several other of Formby's songs, it maintains a running joke that Wigan is a seaside town rather than an inland, industrial centre with a “pier” on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It is filled with the sort of sexual innuendo that was a hallmark of Formby's songs.[1]

References
  1. Richards p. 194

Bibliography
  • Richards, Jeffrey. The Age of the Dream Palace. I.B. Tauris, 2010.


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