Silly Old Gordon Fell in a Ditch is a song featured in the Railway Series story Off the Rails in the book Gordon the Big Engine. A group of schoolboys teasingly sing it to Gordon after he falls into a ditch. The song was used in the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends adaption, following the same premise.
Lyrics
- Silly old Gordon fell in a ditch,
- Fell in a ditch, fell in a ditch.
- Silly old Gordon fell in a ditch,
- All on a Monday morning.
Trivia
General
- According to the song, the story's events take place on a Monday.
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
- In George Carlin's narration of Gordon Takes a Dip, the song has the same tune as the Mother Goose rhyme "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". It is sung in the same way in the Railway Stories audiobook, which was narrated by Johnny Morris.