Play A Train Song!!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCLCsLEoXg&feature=related

A smoke, a long black cadillac,
the engine's winding down.
He'd park it up on the sidewalk
like he owned the whole damn town.
I'd hear him talkin' to some chick
through a thick ghost of smoke,
through a thicker haze of Southern Comfort and coke,

say, Girl you're hotter than a hinge
hangin' off the gates of hell.
Don't be afraid to turn to me,
babe, if he don't treat you well,
and by he he meant me,
so I laughed and I shook his hand.
He'd laugh a little bit louder as he'd
yell up at the band:

Play a train song,
pour me one more round,
make 'em leave my boots on when they lay me into the ground.
I am a runaway locomotive,
outta my one track mind,
and I'm lookin' for any kinda trouble that I can find

I got this old black leather jacket
I got this pack of Marlboro Reds
I got this stash here in my pocket
I got these thoughts in my own head
the right to run until I gotta walk
or until I got to crawl
this moment that I'm in right now and nothing else at all

Play a train song,
pour me one more round,
make 'em leave my boots on when they lay me into the ground.
I am a runaway locomotive,
outta my one track mind.

In the television blizzard lights
I looked around this place.
I found a cold beer on the sofa,
a little smile across his face,
and though I tried with all of my sadness,
somehow I could not just weep
for a man who looked to me like he died laughin' in his sleep,
sayin' a train song,
drinkin' one last round.
We made 'em leave his boots on on the day they layed him down.
He was a runaway locomotive
out of his one track mind.

Play a train song
Play a train song
Play a train song

[mcctatas]

1. City of new orleans

The City of New Orleans
by Steve Goodman

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE

[bluesbassman]

2. Train, Train - Blackfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSq0It21jk

Well train, train
Take me on out of this town
Train, train, lord
Take me on out of this town
Well that woman I'm in love with
Lord, she's Memphis bound

Oh leavin' here
I'm just a raggedy hobo
Lord, I'm leavin' here
I'm just a raggedy hobo
Well that woman I'm in love with
Lord, she's got to go

Goodbye, pretty mama
Get yourself a money man
Goodbye, pretty mama
Lord, get yourself a money man
You take that midnight train to Memphis
Lord, leave me if you can
Oh take that midnight train to Memphis
Lord, leave me if you can
Oh take that train, baby

[Ptah]

3. Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead

Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7W3xb5zZd4


Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey jones is ready, watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.

This old engine makes it on time,
Leaves central station bout a quarter to nine,
Hits river junction at seventeen to,
At a quarter to ten you know its travlin again.

Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey jones is ready, watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.

Trouble ahead, lady in red,
Take my advice youd be better off dead.
Switchmans sleeping, train hundred and two is
On the wrong track and headed for you.

Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey jones is ready, watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.

Trouble with you is the trouble with me,
Got two good eyes but you still dont see.
Come round the bend, you know its the end,
The fireman screams and the engine just gleams...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. I figured you for "Take The A-Train"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHbjNMaEFc

[Ptah]

72. or:

Anita O'Day - Take The "A" Train

I am dumbfounded trying to explain my choice.

:shrug:

[bluesbassman]

4. Glendale Train - New Riders of the Purple Sage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUSrg7QfXcE

WELL SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
THIS MORNIN' AT HALF-PAST NINE
SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND I SWEAR I AIN'T LYIN'
THEY MADE CLEAN OFF WITH SIXTEEN G'S
AND LEFT TWO MEN LYING COLD
SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND THEY MADE OFF WITH THE GOLD

NOW CHARLIE JONES WAS THE ENGINEER
HE HAD TWENTY YEARS ON THE LINE
HE KISSED HIS WIFE AT THE STATION GATE
THIS MORNING AT SIX THIRTY-FIVE
NOW EVERYTHING WENT FINE 'TIL HALF PAST-NINE
THEN CHARLIE LOOKED UP AND HE SAW
THERE WAS MEN ON HORSES, MEN WITH GUNS
AND NO SIGN OF THE LAW

AND SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
THIS MORNIN' AT HALF-PAST NINE
SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND I SWEAR I AIN'T LYIN'
THEY MADE CLEAN OFF WITH SIXTEEN G'S
AND LEFT TWO MEN LYING COLD
SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND THEY MADE OFF WITH THE GOLD

AMOS WHITE WAS THE BAGGAGE MAN
AND HE DEARLY LOVED HIS JOB
THE COMPANY, THEY REWARDED HIM
WITH A GOLDEN WATCH AND FOB
WELL, AMOS HE WAS A MARKIN' TIME
WHEN THE DOOR BLEW OFF HIS CAR
THEY FOUND AMOS WHITE IN FIFTEEN PIECES,
FIFTEEN MILES APART

AND SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
THIS MORNIN' AT HALF-PAST NINE
SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND I SWEAR I AIN'T LYIN'
THEY MADE CLEAN OFF WITH SIXTEEN G'S
AND LEFT TWO MEN LYING COLD
SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND THEY MADE OFF WITH THE GOLD
I SAID SOMEBODY ROBBED THE GLENDALE TRAIN
AND THEY MADE OFF WITH THE GOLD

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. One of my all time favorites

:thumbsup:

[oshyposhy]

5. "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
Glenn Miller
- from "Sun Valley Serenade"
- words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren

Pardon me, boy
Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?
Track twenty-nine
Boy, you can gimme a shine
I can afford
To board a Chattanooga choo choo
I've got my fare
And just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner
Nothing could be finer
Than to have your ham an' eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
Shovel all the coal in
Gotta keep it rollin'
Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

There's gonna be
A certain party at the station
Satin and lace
I used to call "funny face"
She's gonna cry
Until I tell her that I'll never roam
So Chattanooga choo choo
Won't you choo-choo me home?
Chattanooga choo choo
Won't you choo-choo me home?

[Haole Girl]

6. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNre5neZ6QI

[CreekDog]

43. Runaway Train by Roseanne Cash (different song by the late, great songwriter John Stewart)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1MLyhdew2Y&feature=channel_page

I'm worried about you
I'm worried about me
The curves around midnight
Aren't easy to see
Flashing red warnings
Unseen in the rain
This thing has turned into
A runaway train

Long-distance phone calls
A voice on the line
Electrical miles
That soften the time
The dynamite too
Is hooked on the wire
And so are the rails
Of American Flyers

Blind boys and gamblers
They invented the blues
Will pay up in blood
When this marker comes due
To try and get off now
It's about as insane
As those who wave lanterns
At runaway trains

Steel rails and hard lives
Are always in twos
I have been here before this
And now it's with you

I'm worried about you
I'm worried about me
We're lighting the fuses
And counting to three
And what are the choices
For those who remain
The sign of the cross
On a runaway train

This thing has turned into
A runaway train
This thing has turned into
A runaway train
Our love has turned into
A runaway train

[whistler162]

7. Railroad Song Jim Croce

http://www.tsrocks.com/j/jim_croce_texts/railroad_song.html

Written by - Jim Croce & Ingrid Croce
When I was a boy in the days of the train
I'd sit by the tracks on a long summer day
And I'd wave at the brakesman
And he'd wave back at me
While the thunderclouds rolled
Out of East Tennessee

But the dreams of a boy disappear when you're grown
And though I may dream, the railroads are gone
The ties they are rotten
And the tracks shot to hell
Along with my dreams and the old railroad bell

In my dreams I ride the rails to California
Workin' diners and farms along the way
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border
With a black eyed girl beside me all the way

Now the mountains are silent
And the railroads are gone
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee

In my dreams I ride the rails to California
Workin' diners and farms along the way
Or I'd hop a ride to hide across the border
With a black eyed girl beside me all the way

Now the mountains are silent
And the railroads are gone
And the coal towns no longer hear the miners at dawn
But the train whistle shrills out her memories to me
While the thunderclouds roll out of East Tennessee

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. Thanks for this one. We surely lost a treasure when we lost Jim

:(

[whistler162]

70. Agreed... still one of my favorite singer/songwriters....

[gemdem]

8. Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special (San Quentin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmrKeyeHKA

[leftyclimber]

9. Long Black Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gybGXnciig

There's a long black train,
Comin' down the line,
Feedin' off the souls that are lost and cryin',
Rails of sin, only evil remains
Watch out brother for that Long Black Train

Look to the heavens
You can look to the skies
You can find redemption
Staring back into your eyes
There is protection and there's
Peace the same, burnin' your ticket for that
Long Black Train

'Cause there's vict'ry in the Lord I say,
Vict'ry in the lord,
Cling to the Father and His holy name,
And don't go ridin' on that Long Black Train

There's an engineer on that Long Black Train,
Makin' you wonder if the ride is worth the pain,
He's just a waiting on your heart to say
Let me ride on that Long Black Train,

But you know there's vict'ry in the Lord I say,
Vict'ry in the Lord,
Cling to the Father and His holy name,
And dont go ridin' on that Long Black Train

Well, I can hear the whistle from a mile away,
It sounds so good
But I must stay away
That train is a beauty, makin' everybody stare
But its only destination is the middle of nowhere,

But you know theres vict'ry in the Lord I say,
Vict'ry in the Lord,
Cling to the Father and His holy name,
And don't go ridin' on that Long Black Train

I said cling to the Father and His holy name
And dont go ridin' on that long black train
Yeah, watch out brother for that long black train
The Devil's a drivin' that long black train.

[Lyric]

41. First--I cannot believe that you actually know that song. Second--

EWWWW! :P

:hug:

[Arugula Latte]

10. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie -- Asleep at the Wheel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MicJmfFhjnw

[Dystopian]

11. Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdz_G1VGJ4c

peace~

[Dystopian]

12. Train Kept Rolling - Aerosmith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXjl_PJh5OE

peace~

[Arugula Latte]

13. "Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys has a train stanza

i wish i was the brakeman
on a hurtlin fevered train
crashin head long into the heartland
like a cannon in the rain
with the feelin of the sleepers
and the burnin of the coal
countin the towns flashin by
and a night that's full of soul
with light in my head
with you in my arms...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIil8k5QnFU

[ogneopasno]

14. Farmer-Labor Train by Woody Guthrie

From the high Canadian Rockies to the land of Mexico,
City and the country, wherever you may go,
Through the wild and windy weather, the sun and sleet and rain,
Comes a-whistlin' through the country this Farmer-Labor train.
Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar,
She's rollin' through New England to the West Pacific shore.
It's a long time we've been waitin', now she's been whistlin' 'round the bend,
Roll on into Congress on that Farmer-Labor train.

There's lumberjacks and teamsters and sailors from the sea,
There's farmin' boys from Texas and the hills of Tennessee,
There's miners from Kentucky, there's fishermen from Maine; Every worker in the country rides that Farmer-Labor train.
There's warehouse boys and truckers and guys that skin the cats,
Men that run the steel mills, the furnace and the blast,
Through the smoky factory cities, o'er the hot and dusty plains,
And the cushions they are crowded, on this Farmer-Labor train.

Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar,
She's rollin' through New England to the West Pacific shore.
It's a long time we've been waitin', now she's been whistlin' 'round the bend,
Ride on on into Congress on that Farmer-Labor train.

There's folks of every color and they're ridin' side by side
Through the swamps of Louisiana and across the Great Divide,
From the wheat fields and the orchards and the lowing cattle range,
And they're rolling onto victory on this Farmer-Labor train.
This train pulled into Washington a bright and happy day,
When she steamed into the station you could hear the people say:
"There's that Farmer-Labor Special, she's full of union men
Headin' onto White House on the Farmer-Labor train."

[SoxFan]

15. Driver 8-REM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4idj6kDVU

The walls are built up, stone by stone,
The fields divided one by one.
And the train conductor says
take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
Weve been on this shift too long

And the train conductor says
take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but were still a ways away

I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.
The power lines have floaters so the airplanes wont get snagged.
Bells are ringing through the town again,
Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing

And the train conductor says
take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but were still a ways away

Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself to sleep.
Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself, my children to sleep.

He piloted this song in a plane like that one.
She is selling faith on the go tell crusade.
Locomotive 8, southern crescent, hear the bells ring again.
Field of wheat is looking thin

And the train conductor says
take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
Weve been on this shift too long.
And the train conductor says
take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but were still a ways away

[Arugula Latte]

20. Damn, why didn't I think of that one?

That's one of my favorite songs ever.

[leftyclimber]

24. Best driving song ever. nt.

[Arugula Latte]

75. Okay ... Another REM train song: "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Jypk5-140

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. Yukon Railroad ~ The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (someone please post

to YouTube, thanks)

Here we go sailin` low
Bet your mom and pop, baby, will never know
We`re steppin` by the river
Where the woodchucks go
Down by the Yukon Railroad

When the sun come up, we go down
You can have your partner
And you`re foolin` around
Spendin` my time on the open ground
Down by the Yukon Railroad

You can bring a bottle
And we`ll drink it on the track
Baby never comin` back
Well I can just imagine
About a hundred years ago
Old Number 7
Just a steamin` on to heaven
With it`s twenty cars a rockin` in tow
Bringin` on the payroll

Here comes the sun now, we`re havin` fun
You and me together baby, are number one
I can feel another day`s just begun
Thanks to the Yukon Railroad

You can bring a bottle
And we`ll drink it on the track
Baby never comin` back
Well I can just imagine
About a hundred years ago
Old Number 7
Just a steamin` on to heaven
With it`s twenty cars a rockin` in tow
Bringin` on the payroll

Yeah

Well here we go, sailin` low
Bet your mom and pop, baby, will never know
Steppin` by the river
Where the woodchucks go
Down by the Yukon Railroad
Thanks to the Yukon Railroad
We love the Yukon Railroad

[Dystopian]

18. Peace Train - Cat Stevens -

I didn't know he actually wrote this while on a train....:loveya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg
Also, can't believe this wasn't the first one that came to my mind...

peace~

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. perfect ....

can't believe it took so long to be posted. :loveya:

[Dystopian]

25. You were waiting for it!

:loveya:

Thank you so much for this thread...I'm in the mood for music, and am having a nice time:hug:

Here's a more recent one, also live...It's still beautiful, and so is he...Yusuf Islam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wEctHyuc0&NR=1

peace~

[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. sure...I am glad that you are having a good time and thanks for the

link :hug:

I used to think that Cat was just about the dreamiest thing going (back in the day;)

[Arugula Latte]

21. Long Train Running -- The Doobie Bros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ZcGLEu22w&feature=related

[Tom Kitten]

22. Train to Nowhere & Hellbound Train

both by Savoy Brown...

Train to Nowhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6UfMyBsaV8

You can catch it if you want to ride
Don't you worry if it pass you by
You can catch it if you want to ride
Don't you worry if it pass you by

Lord you know the reason why
On this train till I die
Train I ride goes to God knows where
I don't know and I don't care

Train I ride goes to God knows where
I don't know and I don't care
If you aint got money don't despair
'Cause you don't have to pay no fare

Please now brother don't you ride this train
Ride the wrong rails, live your life in vain
Please now brother don't you ride this train
Ride the wrong rails, live your life in vain


Hellbound Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NuSt1nuCs

Hellbound Train I'm on its track
Too late now to turn my back
Conductor coming ticket in his hand
Come to claim my soul
Take me to his land

Hellbound Train I been so wrong
Too late now I'm moving on
Conductor standing watch in his hand
Got to get aboard take you to his land

I'm going down the road on the Hellbound Train
Take a long look lady 'cause you won't see me again
Take a last look lady, yes hard and long
'Cause I'm going down the road on the Hellbound Train

Hellbound Train driving slow
Move on down to the Hell below
Conductor please won't you lend a hand?
Got to get on board take me to your land

Yes I know I've been so wrong
Too late now I'm moving on
Hellbound Train I'm on it's track
Moving down I can't look back

I'm going down the road on the Hellbound Train
Take a long look lady 'cause you won't see me again
Take a last look lady, yes hard and long
'Cause I'm going down the road on the Hellbound Train

I'm going down the road on the Hellbound Train
Take a long look lady 'cause you won't see me again
Take a last look lady, yes hard and long
'Cause I'm going down the road on the Hellbound Train

Lost and flying down the road on the Hellbound Train
Lost and flying down the road on the Hellbound Train
Hand and hand with the devil

[Dystopian]

28. that's awesome...

I was going to search Savoy Brown on YouTube, I was sure there was a train song. I've got a few CDs that I haven't listened to in a couple of years....Don't know many who listen to Savoy Brown...thank you!

peace~

[Dystopian]

30. Crazy Train - Ozzy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbPWcLode0

peace~

[Tom Kitten]

26. Rock Island from "The Music Man"

One reason why I love this movie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ9U4Cbb4wg&feature=related

1st salesman: Cash for the merchandise, cash for the button hooks
3rd salesman: Cash for the cotton goods, csh for the hard goods
1st Salesman: Cash for the fancy goods
2nd salesman: cash for the noggins and the piggins and the frikins
3rd Salesman: Cash for the hogdhead, cask and demijohn. Cash for the crackers and the pickels and the flypaper
4th Salesman: Look whatayatalk. whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayataalk, whatayatalk?
5th Salesman: Weredayagitit?
4th Salesman: Whatayatalk?
1st Salesman: Ya can talk, ya can talk, ya can bicker ya can talk, ya can bicker, bicker bicker ya can talk all ya want
but is different than it was.
Charlie: No it ain't, no it ain't, but ya gotta know the territory.
Rail car: Shh shh shh shh shh shh shh
3rd Salesman: Why it's the Model T Ford made the trouble, made the prople wanna go, wanna get, wanna get up and go
seven eight , nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, twent-two, twenty-three milew to the county seat
1st Salesman: Yes sir, yes sir
3rd Salesman: Who's gonna patronize a little bitty two by four kinda store anymore?
4th Salesman: Whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk.
5th Salesman: Where do you get it?
3rd Salesman: Gone, gone
Gone with the hogshead cask and demijohn, gone with the sugar barrel, pickel barrel, milk pan, gone with the tub and
the pail and the fierce
2nd Salesman: Ever meet a fellow by the name of Hill?
1st Salesman: Hill?
Charlie: Hill?
3rd Salesman: Hill?
4th Salesman: Hill?
1st Newspaper Hill?
2nd Newspaper: Hill?
5th Salesman: Hill?
2nd Salesman: Hill?
All but Charlie and 2nd Salesman: NO!
4th Salesman: Never heard of any salesman Hill
2nd Salesman: Now he dosen't know the territory
1st Salesman: Dosen't know the territory?!?
3rd Salesman: Whats the fellows line?
2nd Salesman: Never worries bout his line
1st Salesman: Never worries bout his line?!?
2nd Salesman: Or a doggone thing. He's just a bang beat, bell ringing, Big haul, great go, neck or nothin, rip roarin,
every time a bull's eye salesman. Thats Professor Harold Hill, Harold Hill
3rd Salesman: What's the fellows line?
5th Salesman: Whats his line?
Charlie: He's a fake, and he dosen't know the territory!
4th Salesman: Look, whaddayatalk, whaddayatalk, whaddayatalk, whaddaystalk?
2nd Saleman: He's a music man
1st Salesman: He's a what?
3rd Salesman: He's a what?
2nd Salesman: He's a music man and he sells clarinets to the kids in the town with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat
drums, big barass bass, big brass bass, and the piccolo, the piccolo with uniforms, too with a shiny gold braid
on the coat and a big red stripe runnin . . .
1st Salesman: Well, I don't know much about bands but I do know you can't make a living selling big trombones, no sir.
Mandolin picks, perhaps and here and there a Jew's harp ...
2nd Salesman: No, the fellow sells bands, Boys bands. I don't know how he does it but he lives like a king and he dallies
and he gathers and he plucks and shines and when the man dances, certinely boys, what else? The piper pays him! Yes sir ,yes
sir,yes sir, yes sir, when the man dances, certinely boys, what else?The piper pays him! Yessssir, Yessssir
Charlie: But he dosen't know the territory!

[Arugula Latte]

27. Wabash Cannonball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13P8tFo3xAE&feature=related

[bridgit]

31. Holly Cole - Train Song (by Tom Waits)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk6-J4ZjywM

[bridgit]

35. Cream-Traintime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdxxSBVwRYg&feature=related

[bridgit]

36. Robert Johnson-Love In Vain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKw8B2XOWro

[bridgit]

37. Captain Beefheart - Click Clack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZMOKLsiuY

[Tuesday Afternoon]

40. you are on a roll

:toast:

good to see you tonight :hug: :hi:

[bridgit]

42. You too...

:toast:

[GOPisEvil]

32. "The Day John Henry Died"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy1Cm_QLFCQ

OK, not about trains, per se but about the railroads.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. Grand Funk Railroad - The Locomotion...Everybody's doing it!!

http://www.youtube.com/v/sSQOeQakExU&hl=en&fs=1

[Arugula Latte]

38. Midnight Train to Georgia -- Gladys Knight & The Pips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78-ftcqpNw

[Arugula Latte]

39. Love Train -- Ojays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOV6siQOwYc

[MrSlayer]

44. Guns N' Roses - Night Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWvUOQkjBNo

[greyl]

45. Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure

With honorable mention to Train by Prince, and Love on a Blue Train by Sheila E.
Peace Train, Love Train, and Midnight Train to Georgia were already claimed, but this Cure has a good non-conformist message. :)

Jumping Someone Else's Train The Cure"

Don't say what you mean
You might spoil your face
If you walk in the crowd
You won't leave any trace
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

It won't take you long
To learn the new smile
You'll have to adapt
Or you'll be out of style
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

If you pick up on it quick
You can say you were there
Again and again and again
You're jumping someone else's train

It's the latest wave
That you've been craving for
The old ideal
Was getting such a bore
Now you're back in line
Going not quite quite as far
But in half the time
Everyone's happy
They're finally all the same
'cause everyone's jumping
Everyone else's train

Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train

Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBip3ufV0Is
Live performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OchDwAr3a2A

[Sebastian Doyle]

46. Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZJRaReb2Vc

I had a job, I had a girl
I had something going mister in this world
I got laid off down at the lumber yard
Our love went bad, times got hard
Now I work down at the carwash
Where all it ever does is rain
Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

She just said "Joe I gotta go
We had it once we ain't got it any more"
She packed her bags left me behind
She bought a ticket on the Central Line
Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining
I feel her kiss in the misty rain
And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train

Last night I heard your voice
You were crying, crying, you were so alone
You said your love had never died
You were waiting for me at home
Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
I ran till I thought my chest would explode
There in the clearing, beyond the highway
In the moonlight, our wedding house shone
I rushed through the yard, I burst through the front door
My head pounding hard, up the stairs I climbed
The room was dark, our bed was empty
Then I heard that long whistle whine
And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried

Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang
Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain
Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

[timtom]

47. Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train

by Louis Armstrong

[oshyposhy]

48. Downtown Train-Rod Stewart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHqB3v5rNCc

Outside another yellow moon
has punched a hole in the night time mist
I climb through the window and down to the street
I'm shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full
full of all them Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little worlds

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that'll ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Be careful of them in the dark
Oh if I was the one you chose to be your only one
Oh baby can't you hear me now, can't you hear me now

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Every night, every night its just the same
On a downtown train

I know your window and I know its late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light of the four way
and watch them as they fall, oh baby
They all having their heart attacks
They stay at the carnival
But they'll never win you back

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Every night, every night its just the same
You leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
All my dreams, all my dreams fall like rain
On a downtown train

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Every night, every night its just the same

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
All my dreams, all my dreams fall like rain
On a downtown train
On a downtown train
All my dreams fall like rain
On a downtown train

[oshyposhy]

49. Marrakesh Express-CROSBY, STILLS & NASH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtzIwGViR5w

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes
Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call
Animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall in blue

Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find
Hope the days that lie ahead
Bring us back to where they've led
Listen not to what's been said to you

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh
All aboard the train, all aboard the train

I've been saving all my money just to take you there
I smell the garden in your hair

Take the train from Casablanca going south
Blowing smoke rings from the corners of my mouth
Colored cottons hang in the air
Charming cobras in the square
Striped djellebas we can wear at home Well, let me hear you now

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh
All on board the train, all on board the train
All on board

[taterguy]

50. The Clash: Train in Vain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIx7k2gYT1I

[Tabasco_Dave]

51. Duke Ellington - "Take The A Train"

You said play A train song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHbjNMaEFc :D

[HughBeaumont]

52. 51 posts and no ALBERT HAMMOND??? COME ON!

:rofl:

Behold another killah song from my Ute. Hard to believe a guy with as many catchy songs as this guy put out gave birth to the pretentious and uncatchy guy from The Strokes . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A_ccea_hJs

[TroglodyteScholar]

53. Mike Watt - Big Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGneWngmos

Woohoo!

[Enrique]

54. Just like this train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Woo9SpTPDU&feature=related

"I went looking for a cause, or a strong cat without claws..."

[SalmonChantedEvening]

55. Railroad Song - Lynyrd Skynyrd

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rLiOP7Vwut0

I jumped off a boxcar down around Tennessee
I was cold tired and dirty hungry as I could be
But I had my guitar and a hundred railroad songs
So I asked the policeman
Can I stay here long
He said Mr. Hobo you got to go now
We don't want you around
See I'm trying to build a respectable town
And we don't need a hobo like you hanging around

So I left that town, Lord with my guitar in my hand
Still cold and tired, kinda mad at the man
But this life that I chose to live, sometime's strange
See I'm trying to learn about the old music from ridin' the train
I'm a hobo I know, but thta's the price I pay
Guess I'll write me another song while I'm on my way
Catch me another train and this is what I'll say
Mr Choo-choo train take me away

I'm goin' to ride this train Lord until I find out
What Jimmie Rogers and the Hag was all about
See I play this rock n roll and I think that's fine
But I want to go back a little further in time
I'm a hobo I know but that's the price I pay
Guess I'll write me another song while I'm on my way
Catch me another train and this is what I'll say
Mr Choo-choo train take me away

:hi: :hug:

[pfitz59]

56. take this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXes2-s2KpQ

[pfitz59]

57. and this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw522GIskVc&feature=related

[pfitz59]

58. Train Song - Vashti Bunyan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AGD78mWcss

[pfitz59]

59. Train Song - Pentangle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vl-gMo1NY0

[pfitz59]

60. Train Song - Todd Snyder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKrwPaP7Bvs

[pfitz59]

61. Live version of the first post

See the man!

[pfitz59]

62. Train Song - Aemstrong & Miller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEv6dqVPLSM

[pfitz59]

63. That Train Song - The Reverend Peyton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPr_hPO2EQ

Last one for me...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

64. All Aboard!! For Petticoat Junction...come and ride the little train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPNoD52bsg&feature=related

[3.14158675309]

65. 64 posts and no mention of the Quad City DJ's?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9vZ_akgmXU

[JoePhilly]

66. Last Train to Clarksville .... THE MONKIES!!!!

[abq e streeter]

67. a few, including 2 I've recorded( Johnny Cash's Train of Love and Bill Haley's Train of Sin)

Downbound Train by Chuck Berry (same title but different song than Springsteen's, and one of Berry's greatest songs),Lonesome Track ( very early Bob Marley). The Johnny Burnette Rocknroll Trio's Train Kept a Rollin, and Lonesome Train (with the incomparable Paul Burlison on lead guitar if my increasingly shaky memory serves me right)... Sheena Easton's Morning Train,Johnny Cash's Hey Porter, and an amazing line by Tom Waits(having a Saturday morning brain fart over the song's title, but its from his "Nighthawk's at the Diner" album) describing the sound of the "el" train in Chicago as sounding like "the ghost of Gene Krupa with overhead cam and glasspacks". Too many here to list lyrics, and I'm too low-tech to know how to post a you tube link........ oh, and a pretty clever ( if I do say so myself, and I do...) novelty song I wrote many years ago called "Subway Surfin" ( might try to post lyrics but not sure I remember them anymore)

[hobbit709]

68. Boxcars by Joe Ely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DB5rclU1M&feature=related
Well I gave all my money to the banker this month
Now I got no more money to spend
She smiled when she saw me comin' through that door
When I left she said, "Come back again."
I watched them lonesome boxcar wheels
Turnin' down the tracks out of town
And it's on that lonesome railroad track
I'm gonna lay my burden down.

I was raised on a farm the first years of my life
Life was pretty good they say
I'll probably live to be some ripe ol' age
If death'll stay out of my way
This world can take my money and time
But it sure can't take my soul
I'm goin' down to the railroad tracks
Watch them lonesome boxcars roll

There's some big ol' Buicks at the Baptist church
Caddilacs at the Church of Christ
I parked my camel by an ol' haystack
I'll be lookin for that needle all night
There ain't gonna be no radial tires
Turnin' down the streets of gold
I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
And watch them lonesome boxcars roll

Now if you ever heard the whistle on a fast freight train
Beatin' out a beautiful tune
If you ever seen the cold blue railroad tracks
Shinin' by the light of the moon
If you ever felt the locomotive shake the ground
I know you don't have to be told
Why I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
And watch them lonesome boxcars roll.

Yeah, I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
Watch them lonesome boxcars roll

[Bennyboy]

69. 68 posts and no "Mystery Train"?

Elvis would be surprised! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-dE1_ieYJU

so would Paul Butterfield and Jerry Garcia.....

(words & music by h. parker - s. philips)
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train got my baby and gone

Train train, comin round, round the bend
Train train, comin round the bend
Well it took my baby, but it never will again (no, not again)

Train train, comin down, down the line
Train train, comin down the line
Well its bringin my baby, cause shes mine all, all mine
(shes mine, all, all mine)

[whistler162]

71. Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot

http://www.poemhunter.com/song/canadian-railroad-trilogy/

Canadian Railroad Trilogy


There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
But time has no beginnings and hist’ry has no bounds
As to this verdant country they came from all around
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forests tall
And they built the mines the mills and the factories for the good of us all

And when the young man’s fancy was turnin’ to the spring
The railroad men grew restless for to hear the hammers ring
Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day
And many a fortune lost and won and many a debt to pay

For they looked in the future and what did they see
They saw an iron road runnin’ from sea to the sea
Bringin’ the goods to a young growin’ land
All up through the seaports and into their hands

Look away said they across this mighty land
From the eastern shore to the western strand
Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We gotta lay down the tracks and tear up the trails
Open ’er heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way ’cause we’re movin’ too slow

Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We’re gonna lay down the tracks and tear up the trails
Open ’er heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way ’cause we’re movin’ too slow
Get on our way ’cause we’re movin’ too slow

Behind the blue rockies the sun is declinin’
The stars, they come stealin’ at the close of the day
Across the wide prairie our loved ones lie sleeping
Beyond the dark oceans in a place far away

We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin’ our hammers in the bright blazin’ sun
Livin’ on stew and drinkin’ bad whiskey
Bendin’ our old backs ’til the long days are done

We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin’ our hammers in the bright blazin’ sun
Layin’ down track and buildin’ the bridges
Bendin’ our old backs ’til the railroad is done

So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the st. lawrence all the way to gaspe
Swingin’ our hammers and drawin’ our pay
Drivin’ ’em in and tyin’ ’em down
Away to the bunkhouse and into the town
A dollar a day and a place for my head
A drink to the livin’ and a toast to the dead

Oh the song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
O’er the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil
With our teardrops and our toil

For there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
And many are the dead men too silent to be real

[busybl]

73. The Rock Island Line - trad.

[Inchworm]

74. The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The sun shines every day... there aint no snow... streams of alcohol .. lake of stew and one of whiskey too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

76. People Get Ready

People get ready
Theres a train a-coming

All Aboard the Jebus Express! :woohoo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y&feature=related

[CreekDog]

77. Nobody posted "Folsom Prison" yet? Wow, well here goes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ts4M3irWM

"...but those people keep-a moving and that's what tort-ures me."