With so much “heavy” talk on this forum lately, how about something on the light side? On another thread, about steam locomotives, (Am I a Traitor?) someone posted a good reply about steamers that made me think of a song. How about songs with train references?[:D]
“Big train from Memphis,now it’s gone,gone,gone.”
Love Train by the OJ’s
City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad (traditional);
Take the Last Train to Clarksville (The Monkees).
There’s another track by the Monkees which includes the lines
“What am I doing hanging on?”
“I should be on that train and gone”
but I cant remember the title
Tulyar15, I think the song title is “What Am I Doin’ Hangin’ Round” by the Monkees.
“Take the last train to Clarksville, and I’ll meet you at the station”
also by t e Monkees
i’m a train by albert hammond
long train running doobie brothers
tuesdays gone(train roll on) skynrd and redone by metallica
boxcar blues and wabash cannonball by boxcar willie
just to name a few
stay safe
joe
Neil Young’s Southern Pacific
"I rode the highball
I fired the Daylight
When I turned 65
I couldnt see right
"It was Mr. Jones,
we gotta let you go
It’s company policy,
you’ll have a pension tho
Roll on,
Southern Pacific
On your silver rails
on your silver rails
Roll on Southern Pacific
on your silver rails
Through the moonlight"
I aint no brake man
Aint no conductor
But I would be though
If I was younger
Roll on.
“Hear My Train a Com’n” by Jimi Hendrix
“Choo Choo Mama” by Ten Years After
“Casey Jones” by Grateful Dead
“Waiting for a train” by Johnny Cash
“Hot rails to h311” by Blue Oyster Cult
Pardon me boys…is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
And I’m kind of partial to the Steve Goodman version of “City of New Orleans” since he wrote it. No offense to Arlo, or any other artists. Steve just does it “right” to me.
I like “Alice’s Restaurant” by Arlo, though!
I first heard Hammond’s “I’m a Train” when my kids were watching Captain Kangaroo, accompanying a video of trains. Included was an articulated loco. Wish I could find that video…
And to add to the list - “Brother Can You Spare A Dime.” ‘Once I had a railroad, made it run…’
“Train Kept A-Rollin’” by Aerosmith
“Locomotive Breath” by Jethro Tull
Randy
“Train, train… take me on out of this town…” – I don’t know who did the original, but I know Warrant recorded it on their “Cherry Pie” album.
[:D]
-Mark
www.fuzzyworld3.com
hell bound train…by savoy brown,
“I was drunk the day my mama got outta prison
and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station
in my pick up truck-
She got run over by a ***ed old train!”
You Don’t Have to Call Me Darlin’,Darlin’ -by David Allen Coe
Oh, great…
Now I have “The Love Train” playing in my head…and “The Last Train to Clarksville” too…
And for some unknown reason, Sonny and Cher’s “The Beat goes On” is in there also…
Oh well, at least you can understand the words!
Ed[8D]
Any Chicagoan with the slightest bit of culture knows enough to “Let the Midnight Special/Shine its ever-lovin’ light on me!”
When you hear the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone…
Chris, you’re dead-on about the City of New Orleans, and Steve Goodman.
Another Steve Goodman song!
Chris
Denver, CO
Funny you should ask…just picked up an Anthology CD of Louis Jordan, swing band leader from the 40’s and 50’s, two terrific train songs on the CD
Choo Cho Cha-Boogie
Headin’ for the station with a pack on my back
I’m tired of transportation in the back of my hack
I love to hear the rhythm of the clickety clack
And hear the lonesome whistle see the smoke from the stack
To pal around with democratic fellow named Mac
So take me right back to the track, jack
Choo-choo, choo-choo, ch’boogie, woo-woo
Woo-woo, ch’boogie, choo-choo, choo-choo, ch’boogie
Take me right back to the track, jack
You reach your destination but you don’t go back
You need some compensation to get back in the black
You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
And read the situations from the front to the back
But the only job that’s open needs a man with a knack
So put it right back in the rack, jack
Choo-choo, choo-choo, ch’boogie, woo-woo
Woo-woo, ch’boogie, choo-choo, choo-choo, ch’boogie
Take me right back to the track, jack
Gonna settle down by the railroad track
Live the life o’riley in the beat down shack
When i hear a whistle i can peep thru the crack
Watch the train rollin’ when it’s ballin’ the jack
Love to hear the rhythm of the clickety clack
So take me right back to the track, jack
Choo-choo, choo-choo, ch’boogie, woo-woo
Woo-woo, ch’boogie, choo-choo, choo-choo, ch’boogie
Take me right back to the track, jack
Take me right back to the track, jack
Texas and Pacific
I know you’ve heard of the Chatanooga Choo Choo
The Rock Island, the New York Central
The New Haven & Hartford, the Pennsylvannia
The Missouri Pacific, the Southern Pacific,
The Northern Pacific is terrific
Oh bu
My wife helped me here;
Can’t You See—Marshal Tucker Band
Crazy Train–Ozzy Osborne