On John Denver’s “All Aboard” CD, there’s a song “Daddy, what’s a Train?”;
also on it is “Chatanooga Choo-Choo” and “Choo-Choo Cha Boogie”. All
very good songs. There’s also the song about the Gandy Dancers, among
others.
“Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash…I hear the train a comin’, it’s rollin’ round the bend, and I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when…
“Orange Blossom Special” by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash…Lookee yonder comin’, comin’ down that railroad track…
Many thanks to all of you who mentioned Hendrix, Arlo Guthrie, Allman Brothers, Cash, Ten Years After, Aerosmith, etc. I thought I was the only guy left who remembered Ten Years After.
Only other song like that I can remember is “Train Kept a Rollin” by Yardbirds, who did it about forty years before Aerosmith.
"Gonna take a freight train, far as I can Lord
I don’t care where it goes.
Ride me a south bound, all the way to Georgia Lord
“Till the train runs outta track”
She’s got the boogie woogie woogies spead all over the place,
Got 'em stacked to the ceiling, gotta stick 'em in your face,
You know my baby likes to rock it like a
BOOGIE WOOGIE CHOO-CHOO-TRAIN!
-The Tractors “Boogie Woogie Choo-Choo-Train”
Let’s take a ride, let’s take a ride on the Love Train,
Unwind, we’ll be chuggaluggin’ all the way-y.
Let’s roll, like the Stones playing all day-ay!
Let’s take a ride, let’s take a ride on the Love Train, ain ain ain!
-Big and Rich “Love Train”
www.uclan.ac.uk/library/musrail.htm
this is a listing of all rr songs and music from 1820 to sept 1/2005
compiled by the library of the university of central lancashire