Name some songs about trains.

[slj0101]

I have a particular one in mind, not a typical one, so I'll see if someone comes up with it (it's my current earworm).

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. City of New Orleans

eom :)

[Zavulon]

2. Train, Train by Blackfoot?

[racaulk]

3. Midnight Train to Georgia

Is that your earworm? :)

[Dr. Strange]

4. "Something About Trains"

by Jane Siberry.

Do I win?

[slj0101]

12. No, but dang if that isn't a unique one.

[formerrepuke]

5. "Sentimental Journey"

[Orrex]

6. Jeez--any of a hundred by Tom Waits

Gun Street Girl
Downtown Train
Time
9th and Hennepin

etc. etc. etc.

[cemaphonic]

101. And of course, Train Song

Well I broke down in E. St. Louis
On the Kansas City line
and I drunk up all my money
that I borrowed every time
and I fell down at the derby
and now the night's black as a crow
It was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
What made my dreams so hollow
was standing at the depot
with a steeple full of swallows
that could never ring the bell
and I come ten thousand miles away
with not one thing to show
well it was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
I remember when I left
without bothering to pack
you know I up and left with
just the clothes I had on my back
now I'm sorry for what I've done
and I'm out here on my own
well it was a train that took me away from
here but a train can't bring me home

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. It Takes a Lot to Laugh. It Takes a Train to Cry - Dylan

[LynneSin]

8. Take the A-Train

:D

[InternalDialogue]

9. "Play a Train Song" -- Todd Snider

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. C'mon N' Ride It.

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

subtle.

[democracyindanger]

11. Train In Vain - The Clash

[SacredCow]

13. Not really ABOUT a train...

But heavily mentioned- "Folsom Prison Blues"

[slj0101]

19. That counts.

The train acts as the McGuffin in the song.

[femmocrat]

14. Wabash Cannonball

nt

[yewberry]

15. Takes a Lot to Laugh, Takes a Train to Cry.

Take the A Train

Runaway Train

City of New Orleans

Casey Jones (sorta)

Peace Train

Monkey and the Engineer

Chatanooga Choo-Choo


There's a kids' song that's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of it!

[Left Is Write]

16. Georgia On A Fast Train - Shaver

[Ron Green]

93. "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"

[Left Is Write]

17. Runaway Train - Rosanne Cash

[Orrex]

29. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

One of the many worst songs of the 90's.

[Critters2]

57. Runaway Train-Tom Petty.

:thumbsup:

[reyd reid reed]

18. Last Train to Clarkesville...

:hide:

[SoCalDem]

94. My guess too

:)

[terrya]

20. "Chattanooga Choo-Choo"

[Zywiec]

21. Ian Anderson - Trains

Here I am at the end of the day
with a cup of cold coffee
from the station buffet.
On Trains, on Trains I seem
to spend my life on Trains.

See the blue suit banker in the ticket line.
Got an Evening Standard with Playboy
hidden behind.
On Trains, on Trains he seems
to spend his life on Trains.

Time after time
Was I just dreaming?
Did I help you aboard.
Full passenger service--
Let me help with the door
Sit down take the weight off your feet.
There's a train-load of people I'd like
you to meet
On Trains, on Trains we love
to spend our lives on Trains.

Join the secret world of Trains.
Feel the pleasure. Touch the pain.
Drift into yesterday.

Once and again
I was just thinking.
We could meet sometime
on the 17.30 where
I usually find
my friends at the end of the day.
May we pay your fare, lady?
We should like you to stay
in our train. On Trains--
you'll have to spend your life
on Trains.

I hear there's an office party on the 18.05
You'll be home for Christmas if they
take you alive from the Train
Those Trains, we have to spend our lives
on Trains.

Once and again
I was just thinking
we could meet any time
on number two platform
where I usually find
my friends at the end of the day
on Trains, Trains, Trains.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. AAAAAAAHHH by The OhmigodIvejustbeenhitbyatrains

[Dr. Strange]

27. Oooh, yuck,

I hate opera!

[some guy]

23. a few

Train In Vain - The Annie Lennox cover of The Clash song
Jubilee Train - The Blasters
It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry - Bob Dylan
Stop That Train - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Downbound Train - Chuck Berry
Downbound Train - Bruce Springsteen
Long Train Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers
Train Leaves Here This morning - The Eagles
Ghost Train - Elvis Costello
Train Song - Holly Cole
Night Train - James Brown
The Train Kept A Rollin' - The Yardbirds
Just Like This Train - Joni Mitchell
If Love Was A Train - Michelle Shocked
Train To Nowhere - Savoy Brown
Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown

[taterguy]

24. Love in Vain by Robert Johnson

I could do this all day. There's just something about trains that goes quite well with great songs

[SteppingRazor]

25. Here's a bunch!

"Guilty Train" by Neil Young (just a small refrain occasionally tacked on to the end of "The Old Laughing Lady" in the mid-1970s, but it's freakin' awesome)

"Sally MacLennane" and "Boat Train" by The Pogues

"You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin'" by Steve Goodman

"Train From Kansas City" by Neko Case (outstanding, like everything she does)

"Night Train" by Guns n' Roses (OK, it's actually about cheap booze and heroin, but hey, the word's in the title)

"Train Kept a-Rollin'" by Aerosmith (originally by someone else, can't remember who)

"Train in the Distance" by Paul Simon

"Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum

"Crazy Train" by Ozzy :headbang:

That's all I can think of.

[slj0101]

26. Wow. Lots of answers, yet no one guessed mine yet.

[anarch]

28. "Last Train to Clarksville"

or how about Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"?

or "Last Train to Trancentral", by the KLF?

[regularguy]

30. Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten

[BrotherBuzz]

96. Elizabeth Cotten played played left handed on a right strung guitar.

Her backwards picking may account for the unusually wonderful sound she was able to produce. Here is some footage of Elizabeth playing Freight Train with Pete Seeger, it has a good close-up of her unusual backwards picking.

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

[Magrittes Pipe]

31. "Black Train" by the Gun Club

[av8rdave]

32. Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull sort of about a train - or a Freudian dream

[SoxFan]

33. Another Journey By Train

"Another Journey By Train", The Cure

"Driver 8", REM

[av8rdave]

34. Tons of Steel Grateful Dead

[MorningGlow]

35. "All Aboard The Choo-Choo Train"

Don't laugh. I'm a victim of children's programming. "Choo-Choo Soul" is a particularly terrifying "urban" interlude on Playhouse Disney. I'm all for urban-flavored kids' stuff, but the host and the ex-con-looking engineer are just disturbing.



On edit: Too hot and icky to spell right.

[HERVEPA]

36. Daddy, What's a Train? (lyrics below)

U.Utah Phillips, the golden voice of the Great Southwest

Daddy, whats a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
When my little boy and girl ask me Daddy, whats a train?

When I was just a boy and living by the track
Us kids would gather up the coal in big ole gunnysacks
Then we heard the warning sound as the train pulled into view
The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through

She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
And we counted cars just as high as we could go
I can almost hear the steam those big old drivers scream
A sound my little kids will never know

Daddy, whats a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
When my little boy and girl ask me Daddy, whats a train?

I guess the times have changed, kids are different now
Cause some dint even seem to know that milk comes from a cow
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars
I remember how we memorized the names on railroad cars

The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC
The Nichel-Plate and the good old Santa Fe
Just names out of the past, I guess they're fading fast
Every time I hear my little boy say

Daddy, whats a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
When my little boy and girl ask me Daddy, whats a train?

We climbed into the car, drove down into town
Right up to the depot house, but no one was around
We searched the yard together for something I could show
But I knew there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so

All the things I did when I was just a kid
How far away those memories appear
I guess its plain to see they still mean a lot to me
Cause my ambition was to be an engineer

Daddy, whats a train? Is it something I can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown-up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house? Well how can I explain
When my little boy and girl ask me Daddy, whats a train?

Words and Music by Bruce U. Utah Phillips

[YankeyMCC]

107. This song hold a special place in my heart -

for the most part music is my son's connection to his mother but there are a couple of songs that he and I share and this is one I would sing to him when he watched his beloved train videos.

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. "Tuesday's Gone WIth the Wind" Lynyrd Skynyrd.. mentions a train in there somewhere i think

[jobycom]

41. Certainly it does.

rain roll on, on down the line,
Won't you please take me far away?
Now I feel the wind blow outside my door,
Means I'm leaving my woman behind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone with the wind.

And I don't know where I'm going.
I just want to be left alone.
Well, when this train ends I'll try again,
But I'm leaving my woman at home.

(chorus)
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My woman's gone with the wind.

Train roll on many miles from my home,
See, I'm riding my blues away.
Tuesday, you see, she had to be free
But somehow I've got to carry on.

[EstimatedProphet]

38. I Know You Rider - Grateful Dead

[taterguy]

39. Wreck of the Old 97

[HERVEPA]

40. Casey Jones (anti scab song)

Casey Jones - The Union Scab
(TUNE: CASEY JONES)
(BY JOE HILL) (1912 EDITION)

The workers on the S.P line to strike sent out a call;
But Casey Jones, the engineer, he wouldn't strike at all;
His boiler it was leaking, and its driver's on the bum,
And his engine and its bearings
they were all out of plumb.

Casey Jones kept his junk pile running;
Casey Jones was working double time;
Casey Jones got a wooden medal,
For being good and faithful on the S.P line.

The workers said to Casey: "Won't you help us win this strike?"
But Casey said: "Let me alone, you'd better take a hike."
Then Casey's wheezy engine ran right off the worn-out track,
And Casey hit the river with an awful crack.

Casey Jones hit the river bottom;
Casey Jones broke his blooming spine;
Casey Jones was an Angeleno,
He took a trip to heaven on the S.P line.

When Casey Jones got up to heaven to the Pearly Gate,
He said: "I'm Casey Jones, the guy that pulled the S.P freight."
"You're just the man," said Peter, "our musicians went on strike:
You can get a job a-scabbing any time you like."

Casey Jones got a job in heaven;
Casey Jones was doing mighty fine;
Casey Jones went scabbing on the angels,
just like he did to workers on the S.P line.

The angels got together and they said it wasn't fair
For Casey Jones to go around a-scabbing everywhere.
The Angel Union No. 23, they sure were there,
And they promptly fired Casey down the Golden Stair.

Casey Jones went to Hell a-flying;
"Casey Jones," the Devil said, "Oh fine;
Casey Jones, get busy shoveling sulfur
That's what you get for scabbing on the S.P line

[jobycom]

42. Pine Box, by Doug Stone. Mentions one, anyway.

I said the night you left me,
Nothin' worse could ever happen,
But seeing you with someone else proved that I was wrong.
And when your eyes met mine,
I knew that you were gone forever,
Along with all the reasons , I had for hanging on.
I'd be better off in a pine box,
On a slow train back to Georgia,
Or in the grey walls of a prison doing time.
I think I'd rather die,
And go to hell and face the devil,
Than to lie here with you and him together on my mind.

I always thought that someday,
We might get back together.
I just thought you needed time to spread your wings and fly.
But when I saw the lovin' way,
You held onto each other,
It was all that I could do, not to break right down and cry.

I'd be better off in a pine box,
On a slow train back to Georgia,
Or in the grey walls of a prison doing time.
I think I'd rather die,
And go to hell and face the devil,
Than to lie here with you and him together on my mind.

Girl I'd be better off in a pine box,
On a slow train back from Georgia,
Or in the grey walls of a prison doing time.
I think I'd rather die,
And go to hell and face the devil,
Than to lie here with you and him together on my mind.

I can't lie here with you and him together on my mind

[HuskerDU]

43. 'I Miss a Lot of Trains' Iris Dement and Ralph Stanley

'Subway Train' New York Dolls

'The Locomotion' Some 60's Girl Group

'Train Comin' Round the Bend' Velvet Underground

'Hard Traveling' Woody Guthrie

[Arugula Latte]

44. "Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys has a stanza about trains:

I freakin' LOVE this song!!

The Waterboys - Fisherman's blues Lyrics

I wish I was a fisherman
tumblin' on the seas
Far away from dry land
and its bitter memories
Casting out my sweet line
with abandonment and love
No ceiling bearin' down on me
Save the starry sky above
With light in my head
you in my arms
Woo!

I wish I was the brakeman
on a hurtlin' fevered train
Crashing a-headlong into the heartland
like a cannon in the rain
With the beating of the sleepers
and the burnin' of the coal
Counting the towns flashing by
in a night that's full of soul
With light in my head
you in my arms
Woo!

Tomorrow I will be loosened
from bonds that hold me fast
That the chains all hung around me
will fall away at last
And on that fine and fateful day
I will take thee in my hands
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
you in my arms

Light in my head
You in my arms (repeat)

[Arugula Latte]

45. another: "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" by Asleep at the Wheel n/t

[NoGOPZone]

46. Southern Pacific by Neil Young

The Clash's Train in Vain doesn't really qualify but it's a good song.

[SacredCow]

47. Deleted- Duplicate

[BrotherBuzz]

48. Waitin' for the "103" by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

[Dr. Strange]

49. "Snakes on a Train" by Samuel L. Jackson

Enough is enough
Get these muthafuckin snakes
off this muthafuckin train!

[Critters2]

58. I love that song!! nt

[Strawman]

50. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qXBwTBlpo1U

[Strawman]

51. I Often Dream of Trains

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lm06GTbEuCI

[Va Lefty]

52. "Hey Porter" by Johnny Cash

[MissMillie]

53. Downtown Train -- (I think the original was by Tom Waits)

but the version I heard on the radio was by Rod Stewart

[Aristus]

54. "Spanish Train" by Chris De Burgh:

There's a Spanish train that runs between
Quadalquivir and old Seville,
And at dead of night the whistle blows,
and people hear she's running still...

And then they hush their children back to sleep,
Lock the doors, upstairs they creep,
For it is said that the souls of the dead
Fill that train ten thousand deep!!

Well a railwayman lay dying with his people by his side,
His family were crying, knelt in prayer before he died,
But above his head just a-waiting for the dead,
Was the Devil with a twinkle in his eye,
"Well God's not around and look what I've found,
this one's mine!!"

Just then the Lord himself appeared in a blinding flash of light,
And shouted at the devil, "Get thee hence to endless night!!"
But the Devil just grinned and said "I may have sinned,
But there's no need to push me around,
I got him first so you can do your worst,
He's going underground!!"

"But I think I'll give you one more chance"
said the Devil with a smile,
"So throw away that stupid lance,
It's really not your style",
"Joker is the name, Poker is the game,
we'll play right here on this bed,
And then we'll bet for the biggest stakes yet,
the souls of the dead!!"

And I said "Look out, Lord, he's going to win,
The sun is down and the night is riding in,
That train is dead on time, many souls are on the line,
Oh Lord, he's going to win!.."

Well the railwayman he cut the cards
and he dealt them each a hand of five
And for the Lord he was praying hard
or that train he'd have to drive...
Well the Devil he had three aces and a king,
and the Lord, he was running for a straight,
he had the queen and the knave and the nine and ten of spades,
All he needed was the eight...

And then the Lord he called for one more card,
but he drew the diamond eight,
And the Devil said to the son of God,
"I believe you've got it straight,
So deal me one for the time has come
to see who'll be the king of this place,
But as he spoke, from beneath his cloak,
he slipped another ace...

Ten thousand souls was the opening bid,
and it soon went up to fifty-nine,
but the Lord didn't see what the Devil did,
and he said "that suits me fine",
"I'll raise you high to hundred and five,
and forever put an end to your sin",
But the Devil let out a mighty shout, "My hand wins!!"

And I said "Lord, oh Lord, you let him win,
The sun is down and the night is riding in,
That train is dead on time, many souls are on the line,
Oh Lord, don't let him win..."

Well that Spanish train still runs between,
Quadalquivir and old Seville,
And at dead of night the whistle blows,
And people hear she's running still...
And far away in some recess
The Lord and the Devil are now playing chess,
The Devil still cheats and wins more souls,
And as for the Lord, well, he's just doing his best...

And I said "Lord, oh Lord, you've got to win,
The Sun is down and the night is riding in,
That train is still on time, Oh my soul is on the line,
Oh Lord, you've got to win..."

[Tyler Durden]

55. Two Trains...Little Feat

In 1966 I found my love
In 1967 I had all there was
And as my time went by I was satisfied
Until that situation took me by surprise

Now there's two trains runnin' - on that line
One train's me, and the other's a friend of mine
You know it would be all right, be just fine
If the woman took one train, and left the other behind

Illusion it is just the same conclusion
I don't know how to play the game
Of what it is or how it's going to be
When one train is my friend and the other train is me

Easy, I say easy, I can't push or shove her
So I guess I really care
Now I'm not one to hide my love behind a lock and key
But if things keep going the way they are there's no place left for me

There's two trains runnin' - on that line
One train's me, and the other's a friend of mine
You know it would be all right, be just fine
If the woman took one train, and left the other behind

Two trains, two trains, two trains, two trains

[Critters2]

56. Runaway Train--Tom Petty nt

[slj0101]

59. Since no one got it:

"Trans-Europe Express" by Kraftwerk.

[some guy]

66. no

I don't think that's the one you were thinking of - try again. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

67. Excellent worm!

I love "Autobahn," too. :thumbsup:

[auburngrad82]

60. Ride the Silver Eagle

Kinky Friedman

[Crabby Appleton]

61. You never even call me by my name.

David Allen Coe

It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even call me by my name.

You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride.
You don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore.
Even though your on my fightin' side.

CHORUS
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin' in the rain.
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even call me by my name.

I've heard my name a few times in your phone book
I've seen it on signs where I've laid
But the only time I know, I'll hear David Allan Coe
Is when Jesus has his final judgement day.

CHORUS...

Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
and he told me it was the perfect country and western song
I wrote him back a letter and told him it was NOT the perfect
country and western song because he hadn't said anything about
Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk.
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent
it to me and after reading it, I realized that my friend had written
the perfect country and western song. And I felt obliged to include it
on this album. The last verse goes like this here:

Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train.

CHORUS:

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin' in the rain. No,
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me
Why don't you ever call me by my name.

[Truth2Tell]

62. Peace Train!!!!

Cat Stevens

[Crabby Appleton]

63. MTA - Kingston Trio

Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Charley
on a tragic and fateful day.
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family,
went to ride on the M.T.A.

Chorus:
Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned and
his fate is still unknown.
(What a pity! Poor ole Charlie. Shame and scandal.
He may ride forever. Just like Paul Revere.)
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston.
He's the man who never returned.

Charlie handed in his dime at the Kendall Square Station
and he changed for Jamaica Plain.
When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel."
Charlie couldn't get off of that train.
(Chorus)
Now, all night long Charlie rides through the station,
crying, "What will become of me?!!
How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea
or my cousin in Roxbury?"
(Chorus)
Charlie's wife goes down to the Sculley Square Station
every day at quarter past two,
And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich
as the train comes rumblin' through.
(Chorus)
Now, you citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal
how the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the fare increase! Vote for George O'Brien!
Get poor Charlie off the M. T. A.
(Chorus)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man who never returned.
Ain't you Charlie?

[Katina]

71. I grew up with that song

I didn't think anyone remembered that one by the Kingston Trio.
Thanks! :hi:

[MAGICBULLET]

Funky Like a Train by the Equals

Here Comes the Express - B.T. Express
The Train - Buddy Miles
Train Comin' Round the Bend - Velvet Underground
Train to Skaville - The Ethiopians

[mitchum]

64. "Into You Like A Train" Psychedelic Furs

[ghostsofgiants]

68. Damn, that was my answer.

[mitchum]

70. No problem; it's a big train

[Oeditpus Rex]

65. 'She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)'

—Taj Mahal.

Covered by everybody from the Blues Brothers to Wet Willie.

[Call Me Wesley]

69. ELO - Last train to London.

Since 'Peace Train' was already mentioned. ;)

[Richardo]

72. Orange Blossom Special

Love that one.

[tandot]

73. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Crazy, but thats how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe its not to late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate

Mental wounds not healing
Lifes a bitter shame
Im going off the rails on a crazy train

Ive listened to preachers
Ive listened to fools
Ive watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you have the role

Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
Im going off the rails on a crazy train

I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeh-h

Heirs of a cold war
Thats what weve become
Inheriting troubles Im mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
Im living with something that just isnt fair

Mental wounds not healing
Who and whats to blame
Im going off the rails on a crazy train

[Alexander]

74. No one said "The Train Kept A-Rollin"?

[TrogL]

75. Raindrops are falling on my head

[TrogL]

80. Purple Rain

[TrogL]

81. McArthur Park

Got something about a cake in the train.

[Adsos Letter]

76. Here are two:

Rosanne Cash: "My Baby Thinks He's A Train"

Tex Beneke: "Chattanooga Choo-Choo"

[Inchworm]

77. Big Rock Candy Mountains

Still havent found this place.. looked and looked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACDHNb5iWs
______________
Big Rock Candy Mountain

One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headin for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I'm a goin to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains


:hi:

[losthills]

79. Here's another folk song

Fingerpick brightly...

Jay Goulds Daughter - Lyrics & Chords


G
Jay Gould's daughter said before she died,
D7
Papa, fix the blinds so the bums can't ride.
G
If ride they must, they got to ride the rod.
D7 G
Let 'em put their trust in the hands of God.
C
In the hands of God.
G
In the hands of God.
D7 G
Let them put their trust in the hands of God.

Jay Gould's daughter said, before she died,
There's two more trains I'd like to ride.
Jay Gould said, "Daughter, what can they be?"
The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe, etc.


Jay Gould's daughter said, before she died,
There's two more drinks I'd like to try.
Jay Gould said, "Daughter what can they be?
They's a glass o' water and a cup o' tea.
A cup o' tea, etc.


On a Monday morning it begin to rain.
'Round the curve come a passenger train.
On the blinds was Hobo John.
He's a good old hobo, but he's dead and gone.
Dead and gone, etc.


Charlie Snyder was a good engineer
Told his fireman not to fear
Pour on your water, boys, and shovel on your coal
Stick your head out the window, see the drivers roll
See the drivers roll, etc.

[IcyPeas]

78. New Riders of the Purple Sage....

Somebody Robbed the Glendale Train.

Somebody robbed the Glendale Train this morning at half past nine
oh somebody robbed the Glendale Train, I swear I ain't lyin'


they made clean off with 16 G and left too many lyin' cold
oh somebody robbed the Glendale Train and made off with the gold.

[ForrestGump]

82. Mystery Train

[fudge stripe cookays]

83. "Jumpin Someone Else's Train" - The Cure n/t

[Okiojira]

84. "Train in the Distance" - Paul Simon

edited to add:
"Trains of No Return" - Ofra Haza
"Just Like This Train" - Joni Mitchell

[alarimer]

85. Orange Blossom Special

Rock Island Line
The Train Carrying Jimmy Rodgers Home (Greg Brown wrote it I think).

Texas 1947 - Guy Clark (everybody turns out to see a runaway train)

[RetroLounge]

86. 2 by Michelle Shocked

If Love Was a Train

If love was a train
I think I would ride a slow one
One that would ride thru the night
Making every stop
If love was a train
I would feel no pain and I would never get off

If love was a train
I think I would ride me a long one
Hear me talking
I'm talking fifty boxcars long
Aw, what's the use?
Most trains these days
Ain't got no engine
Much less a caboose woo woo!

Look out here she comes
Look out there she goes

If love was a train
I'd throw my body on her tracks
If love was a train
I'd throw my body right down on her tracks
If love was a train
I would feel no pain
As she rolled right down my back

But love ain't no train
More like a broncing bull
And the most you get's 15 seconds
In that saddle
And even if you manage to ride
You are all shaken up inside
And it's gonna be a long time
Before you ride that bull again

If love was a train
But love ain't no train...


The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore

When I was a curly headed baby
My daddy set me down on his knee
Saying boy you go to school and you learn your letters
Don't become no dusty miner boy like me.

And I was born and raised in the mouth of a Hazzard holler
Where the coal cars rolled and rumbled past my door
But now they stand in a rusty row of empties
'Cause the L&N don't stop here anymore.

Now I used to think my daddy was a black man
With script enough to buy the company store
Oh but now he goes to town with empty pockets
And Lord his face is as white as a February snow.

Never thought I'd ever live to love that coal dust
Never thought I'd pray to hear those tipples roar
Oh but God I wish the grass would turn to money
And feel my greenbacks in my pockets once more.

Lastnight I dreamed I went down to the office
To get my payday like I've done before
But those kudzu vines they were covering over the doorway
And there were weeds and grass growing right up through the floor.

RL

[Jade Fox]

87. The Last Cannonball-Mary McCaslin.....

Obscure, but a great song.

[IcyPeas]

92. Mary McCaslin !!!

O my god -- I own a Mary McCaslin album -- it's the one with "Don't fence me in" and the Beatles, Here, There and Everywhere ..... she was/is great!!!

[BlueJazz]

88. "The Train" by Ray Charles

[petronius]

89. The Gambler (I think the train is essential to the story) (nt)

[Zorra]

90. Big Train From Memphis - John Fogerty n/t

[mzteris]

91. Chicken Train

going all day

chicken Train take your troubles away...

lla lala la hmmmm hmmmm lala la hmmm hmmm la la la

[hippywife]

95. "I Like Trains" by Fred Eaglesmith

http://www.fredeaglesmith.com/

[ornotna]

99. Nice

I like Fred. How about "49 Tons" By Fred Eaglesmith of course.


http://www.fredjeaglesmith.com/proddetail.php?prod=091RLS

[ikojo]

97. Casey Jones

Ridin' that TRAIN high on cocaine..

[greatauntoftriplets]

98. Canadian Railroad Trilogy...

by Gordon Lightfoot.

I cannot believe that this hasn't been posted here already.

[triguy46]

100. I looked through 173 Slim Whitman titles and not 1 about trains.

[bridgit]

102. Charlie on the MTA...

Let me tell you the story
Of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket,
Kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA

Charlie handed in his dime
At the Kendall Square Station
And he changed for Jamaica Plain
When he got there the conductor told him,
"One more nickel."
Charlie could not get off that train.

Chorus:
Did he ever return,
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.

Now all night long
Charlie rides through the tunnels
the station
Saying, "What will become of me?
Crying
How can I afford to see
My sister in Chelsea
Or my cousin in Roxbury?"

Charlie's wife goes down
To the Scollay Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window
She hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumblin' through.

As his train rolled on
underneath Greater Boston
Charlie looked around and sighed:
"Well, I'm sore and disgusted
And I'm absolutely busted;
I guess this is my last long ride."
{this entire verse was replaced by a banjo solo}

Now you citizens of Boston,
Don't you think it's a scandal
That the people have to pay and pay
Vote for Walter A. O'Brien
Fight the fare increase!
And fight the fare increase
Vote for George O'Brien!
Get poor Charlie off the MTA.

Chorus:
Or else he'll never return,
No he'll never return
And his fate will be unlearned
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man (Who's the man)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man (Oh, the man)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man who never returned.

[Richard Steele]

103. Dayum- not a one of you has mentioned "Rock Island Line" yet? FOR SHAME!

"I fooled you;
fooled you...

I got pig iron,
I got pig iron,
I got aaaallll pig iron!"

[Ellipsis]

104. "Freight Train Boogie" Doc Watson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-I2tIkztY

[OnionPatch]

105. Fire, by Springsteen

I always loved that song!

[noonwitch]

106. She Caught The Train UB40

na

[Jimbo S]

108. "Mule Train" - Boxcar Willie

In school we would mock his infomercial all the time.