On the 5:15

"On the 5:15" is a song written in 1914 by Henry I. Marshall and recorded in 1915 by Billy Murray, along with the American Quartet, which featured a bass counterpoint to Murray's Irish tenor voice, probably William F. Hooley. The Ingersoll watch, made by the Ingersoll Watch Company, was a popular brand at that time due to its famous one-dollar price. The unnamed subject of the song is eventually taken to divorce court by his angry wife. He wins his case easily, as he says, because "the jury, the lawyers, the judge supreme / all are commuters on the 5:15".

On the 5:15

"On the 5:15" is a song written in 1914 by Henry I. Marshall and recorded in 1915 by Billy Murray, along with the American Quartet, which featured a bass counterpoint to Murray's Irish tenor voice, probably William F. Hooley. The Ingersoll watch, made by the Ingersoll Watch Company, was a popular brand at that time due to its famous one-dollar price. The unnamed subject of the song is eventually taken to divorce court by his angry wife. He wins his case easily, as he says, because "the jury, the lawyers, the judge supreme / all are commuters on the 5:15".