Mine is Last Train To Clarksville by The Monkees.[C):-)]
“Last Train Home” Pat Metheny Group rendition
I suppose I am going to show my age, but it has to be the “Wabash Cannonball” or “The Orange Blossom Special.” “The Wreck of the Old 97” is gonna be right up there too. I kinda choke up when I hear “They gave him his orders in Monroe Virgina…” You know there are wild canaries all around Danville because 97 was carrying a load of canaries for testing the air quality in the mines.
Blackfoot train
My favorite train song doesn’t mention trains but it makes me think trains. Route 66, all versions, incl the TV series version which is just music.
Traveling Rt 66 I used to watch the Santa Fe. Thus the connection!
“The City of New Orleans” By Arlo Guthrie is without a doubt my favorite train song. Sadly, it appears that we will be singing that “disappearing railroad blues” one more time if Amtrak really goes under.
My big favorite is “Transformer Man” by Neil Young from the “Trans” Album. But if you listen to the live acoustic version on the “Unplugged” album you’ll hear some guy holler out in joy. If I had been in that audience, it could have been me only I would have excitedly yelled louder. Yeah!!!
But in that same consist following close behind are “I Won’t Give Up My Train” by Merle Haggard, “City of New Orleans” by Arlo Guthrie (Steve Goodman may have written the song, but Arlo gave it life), “Mercy of The Wheels” and “I Don’t Feel Like A Train Anymore” both by John Gorka, and “Southern Pacific” and “Train of Love” both by Neil Young.
for me is “the midnigth train to georgia”
He is leaving on the midnigth train to georgia…
City of New Orelans by Willie Nelson. Just love his rendition of that Arlo Guthrie song. “15 cars and 15 restless riders,” never did sound quite right - should’ve been more than 15 riding that train! I think my favorite line is, “The sons of Pullman Porters and the sons of Engineers …” Yeah!
Anyway, I play that song over and over during my operating sessions and never get tired of hearing it.
Thanx for the question!
Tom Lehrer, a mathematics professor at Harvard, sang a song back in the fifties that I have trouble getting out of my head. I don’t remember the title, but the first couple of lines were: “Passengers will please refrain, from using toilet while the train, is in the station–Darling I love you. We encourage constipation while the train is in the station–moonlight always makes me think of you. As we wander through the park; goosing statues in the dark, if Custer’s horse can take it, why can’t you?” Fortunately, that’s all I remember, and without the title, I can’t find it on Napster.[:D][B)]
Anyone here listen to NPR radio’s country music show on Sunday. I did all day today while track laying and they had a mess of old old old train songs bet no one today ever heard of.
I did this thread a few months back but if you have to know its
LYNYRD SKYNYRDs TUESDAYS GONE
BLACKFOOTs TRAIN
and OZZYS CRAZY TRAIN
laz57
ozzy - crazytrain
the freighttrain song that goes- freighttrain freighttrain going so fast
Wabash Cannonball
metallica song that goes- the light at the end of the tunnel is just a freighttrain commin your way-A-AA- A
AEROSMITH train kept a rolling
“City of New Orleans” and “A Man and a Train” (theme song from “Emperor of the North” movie).
Cant you see by The Marshall Tucker Band
laz57
Train - Blackfoot
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
“Come all ya’ rounders if ya’ wanna hear, a story about a great engineer…Oh, Casey Jones was the rounder’s name…” etc. I think Berl Ives did the “Ballad of Casey Jones” back in the '50’s. Great stuff, but “City of New Orleans” by Guthrie has that sad and haunting sound. Any train song by Johnny Cash is magic, too.
“Come all ya’ rounders if ya’ wanna hear, a story about a great engineer…Oh, Casey Jones was the rounder’s name…” etc… On a big ten wheeler that he rode to fame!
Chris
Mine has to be Orange Blossom special , Wabash Cannonball or Night Train.