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The Texas Country band Turnpike Troubadours recorded a song entitled "Long, Hot Summer Day", about a man who works on a tug boat on the Illinois River. The chorus of the song includes the lyrics, "For every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River, get a half a day off with pay. On a tow boat pickin' up barges on a long hot summer day."
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