This song pays homage to the unheralded effort of the Immigrant Chinese men who worked speedily through extremes of temperature and adverse conditions to build much of the American Railroad in the nineteenth century. Having to endure being treated like third class citizens ,blatant hostility and racist propaganda, the Chinese contribution to such a symbolic token of American success as the joining of the East to West train lines, has cruelly become a forgotten detail of history.  The ultimate snub comes in the form of a photograph of the ceremonial "golden spike" ( the last pin to be hit in the railroad as the two sides finally met up) includes only white skinned, largely Irish, immigrants despite the fact the fact their numbers were dwarfed by the Chinese workingmen. "Where were you when the Golden Spike got hit, cos you weren't in the picture, faces didn't fit, singing Chinese railroad working men's blues."  I hope I've done their memory justice. x

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