Songs about Trains ----

[QueenOfCalifornia]

These songs are part of the fabric of America - There is a love affair with this mode of transportation... Which "train" song do you like?

Some of my favorites:

Just Like This Train - Joni Mitchell -
Peace Train - Cat Stevens -
City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman - Made famous by Arlo Guthrie
Glendale Train - New Riders of the Purple Sage

...................................

[Ptah]

1. Take the A Train

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJixf0j_myw


You must take the A Train
To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem

If you miss the A Train
You'll find you've missed the quickest way to Harlem

Hurry, get on, now, it's coming
Listen to those rails a-thrumming (All Aboard!)

Get on the A Train
Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem

[QueenOfCalifornia]

2. Great music

swingin'!

I love Soul Asylum's Runaway Train ----

[triguy46]

3. Train called Joe

A favorite of my son's when he was 2 or 3:

This is a train whose name is Joe
Listen how his whistle goes:
Woo Hoo!

This is the shiny silvery track
that Joe must take to town and back.

With a clack
and clatter and chug
and a etc, all i can remember but he really liked the Woo Hoos!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash.

[Tyler Durden]

60. "Two Trains Running" - Lowell George and Little Feat

[Dystopian]

5. Does this count?

Locomotive Breath!
It's sort of fits the category...:shrug:
I love it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JminCiuh3t0

peace~

[Haole Girl]

6. Runaway Train, Soul Asylum

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

[Inchworm]

7. The Wreck of Ol' 97 (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hik4Qv2qNYY

:hi:

[taterguy]

8. Shaver's Georgia On a Fast Train

Along with a bunch of others that I'll post later

[Ptah]

9. Casey Jones

Grateful Dead-Casey Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIJdRs-jGo

[Crabby Appleton]

10. Midnight Train to Georgia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHhItkhc7o

[abq e streeter]

11. James Brown's Night Train, Elvis's Mystery Train, Train Kept A -Rollin'

by the way---James himself supposedly played drums on that. Was that Dorsey or Johnny Burnette on the last one? Johnny I think, but having a senior moment and can't remember for sure... oh yeah, Peace Train by Cat Stevens... People Gotta Be Free--( that train of freedom, its about to ride any minute, you know its been long overdue...) Train of Love,( every so often everybody's baby gets the urge to roam, but everybody's baby but mine's comin home) and Hey Porter by Johnny Cash..

[femmocrat]

12. Wabash Cannonball

And what was that one, "My baby takes the morning train"?

[calimary]

55. I believe it's "Morning Train" by Sheena Easton.

[quip]

13. Take the Last Train to Pottsville

Of course!

[Arugula Latte]

28. errrr ... did you mean Clarksville?

:shrug: :)

[quip]

37. lol "Pottsville"

What was I smoking? :smoke: :blush:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

38. Pott? eom

[Arugula Latte]

42. *ba-da-chhh*

:rofl:

[quip]

54. Ha, you kidder! I don't smoke pot. Really. Furthermore,

I don't smoke pot, either.

[hellbound-liberal]

14. My favorite train song from the Eagles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd3GyDXPZ4E

"Midnight Flyer"

Oo, Midnight Flyer
Engineer, won't you let your whistle moan?
Oo, Midnight Flyer
I paid my dues and I feel like trav'lin' on

A runaway team of horses ain't enough to make me stay
So throw your rope on another man
And pull him down your way
Make him into someone who can take the place of me
Make him every kind of fool you wanted me to be

Oo, Midnight Flyer
Engineer, won't you let your whistle moan?
Oo, Midnight Flyer,
I paid my dues and I feel like trav'lin' on
Maybe I'll go to Santa Fe, maybe San Antone,
Any town is where I'm bound any way to get me gone
Don't think about me, never let me cross your mind
'Cept when you hear that midnight lonesome whistle whine

Oo, Midnight Flyer
Engineer, won't you let your whistle moan?
Oo, Midnight Flyer
I paid my dues and I feel like trav'lin' on
I paid my dues and I feel like trav'lin' on

[Paladin]

15. "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," Gordon Lightfoot

Still goosebump material, after all these years.....

[ironflange]

68. Let's share it with these non-Canucks

Though, looking at these words, there's really nothing specifically Canadian there, except for one or two lines. It could just as easily be applied to the Union Pacific or whatever.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy, ©1967 by Gordon Lightfoot

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 the history has no bounds
As to this verdant country they came from all around
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forests tall
Built the mines, 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 running from the sea to the sea
Bringing the goods to a young growing land
All up from 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 her heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way 'cause we're moving too slow

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

Behind the blue Rockies the sun is declining
The stars they come stealing at the close of the day
Across the wide prairie our loved ones lie sleeping
Beyond the dark ocean in a place far away

We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swinging our hammers in the bright blazing sun
Living on stew and drinking bad whiskey
Bending our backs til the long days are done

We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swinging our hammers in the bright blazing sun
Laying down track and building the bridges
Bending 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
Swinging our hammers and drawing our pay
Layin' 'em in and tying them down
Away to the bunkhouse and into the town
A dollar a day and a place for my head
A drink to the living, a toast to the dead

Oh the song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
On the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up her 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

[Paladin]

81. Full Confession: I'm One Of Those Non-Canucks

I used to listen to---and repeatedly request---"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" on the folk music station in Austin, TX when I was a kid in the late 60's. (And yes, youngsters, there was a time in this fair land when there were radio stations devoted entirely to folk music. And it was good. So good it hurts, now.)

Thank you so much for setting down the lyrics, you made my day. "We are the navvies who work upon the railway." Like I said, it still gives me goosebumps.....

[Bennyboy]

16. Mystery Train..........

Sixteen coaches long....

[hellbound-liberal]

17. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry by Bob Dylan

performed here live by Steve Earle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqSG8KlNLuM

Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby
Can't buy me no thrill
Well, I sit up all night, baby
Leanin' on the window sill
Well, if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don't make it
You know my baby will

Don't the moon look good, mama
Shinin' through down through them trees
Don't the brakeman look good, mama
Chuggin' down the "Double E"
Don't the sun look good
Don't the sun look good
Goin' down over the sea
Don't my gal look fine
When she's comin' after me

Now the wintertime is coming mama
The windows are filled with frost
I tried to tell everybody
But I could never get my thing across
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
I don't wanna be your boss
Don't say I never warned you
When your train gets lost

I said I ride on a mailtrain, baby
Can't buy me no thrill
Well, I sit up all night, darling
Leanin' on the window sill
And if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don't make it
You know my baby she will

Don't the moon look good, mama
Shinin' through down through them trees
Don't the brakeman look good, mama
Chuggin' down the "Double E"
Don't the sun look good
Don't the sun look good
Goin' down over the sea
Don't my gal look fine
When she's comin' in after me

Now the wintertime is coming mama
The windows are filled with frost
I tried to tell everybody
But I could never get my thing across
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
I don't wanna be your boss
And don't say I never warned you
When your train gets lost

[Bennyboy]

18. Jack Straw ...Grateful Dead

Catch the Detroit, lightning out of Santa Fe
Great Northern out of Cheyenne
from sea to shinin sea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUF3UoOvoI

[Pool Hall Ace]

19. Love Train by the O'Jays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEUKW99ohuw

[hellbound-liberal]

21. Love Train by Wolfmother

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MeHwgR8pQhg

[ghostsofgiants]

20. "Into You Like A Train" by Psychedelic Furs.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

22. The Train Kept A Rollin' + Smokestack Lightning

the yardbirds

[hellbound-liberal]

30. And this version by Aerosmith

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QUb8WHAqOto

[abq e streeter]

67. if you enjoy the Yardbirds versions of these,

(which are great; and I love the Yarbirds), if you've never heard Howlin' Wolf do Smokestack..., try to find a copy of it, the only description that comes to mind is blood-curdling... Also, you can hear Johnny Burnette's version of Train Kept a Rollin on you tube... Wasn't sure if you were aware of these earlier versions , but I'm assuming exquisite musical taste on your part by your being hip to the Yardbirds, so thought I'd turn you on to both Burnette's (Howlin Wolf's real name was Chester Burnette) versions if you didn't already know of em...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

83. i do love the yardbirds

one of my all time favorites. i was lucky to see them in 1968 in lorain ohio with beck and page. the original james gang was the opening act.

i love howlin' wolf, too. thanks for the youtube info.

great minds...

[hellbound-liberal]

23. Downtown Train by Tom Waits

though most people know Rod Stewart's version

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1OLA6AiZlVw


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

[Earth_First]

24. Train Song -Phish n/t

[bbernardini]

25. "Trains" by Porcupine Tree

From the album In Absentia:

Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head

Always the summers are slipping away

A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her

Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay

When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK

[southpaw]

106. Love that one!

I was going to post it, but decided I'd check to see if anyone had beat me to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FATY4dDw28

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. Peace Train by Cat Stevens

[Bennyboy]

27. The ALL TIMER!

String Cheese Incident...Johnny Cash http://www.sendspace.com/file/osd8i1

The only song that puts Johny Cash on that train!

[Arugula Latte]

29. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie by Asleep at the Wheel

Take me right back to the track -- Jack!

[Bennyboy]

31. I wish I was a headlight...on a northbound train......

I know you Rider......

[redwitch]

32. Chattanooga Choo Choo

"Dinner in the diner, nuthin' could be finer..."

[hellbound-liberal]

33. Do subways count? Here's one from Blue Oyster Cult: Hot Rails to Hell

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pc9PPy0jzc8

Riding the underground
Swmming in sweat
A rumble above and below
Hey cop don't you know
The heat's on all right
The hot summer didn't quit for the night

1277 express to heaven
Speeding along like a dynamite
1277 express to heaven
Rumbles the steel like a dogfight
You caught me in a spell
Trying to leave but you know darn well
The heat from below can burn your eyes out

Blackened out eyes
Scratched on the wall
Stoned out looks from the crowd
The king will not know
On the wall it was said
The flash of his cards was sprayed with red

1277 express to heaven
Speeding along like a dynamite
1277 express to heaven
Rumbles the steel like a dog fight
You caught me in a spell
Trying to leave but you know darn well
The heat from below can burn your eyes out

1277 express to...
1277 express to...
1277 express to heaven
Speeding along like a dynamite
1277 express to heaven
Rumbles the steel like a dogfight
You caught me in a spell
Trying to leave but you know darn well
The heat from below can burn, Yeah burn!
Your eyes out
Your eyes out

Your eyes out!
out! out! out! out!
out! out! out! out!

[Bennyboy]

34. Downbound Train...Bruce Springsteen......

[greendog]

35. "Blue Railroad Train" - Tony Rice & Friends

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

[Bennyboy]

36. Crazy Train...Ozzy and Randy.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qe50BjAtFI

[greendog]

39. "Kassie Jones" - Furry Lewis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj2nxCntQo&mode=related&search=

[greendog]

40. "Freight Train" - Elizabeth Cotten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSYzFdloqY&mode=related&search=

[opiate69]

41. "Train, Train" - Blackfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrtApoX959c

[TorchTheWitch]

101. Ah, there's a good one

One of the first albums I ever bought was Blackfoot "Strikes" which I'm pretty sure has Train, Train and Highway Song on it.

Good stuff.

[greendog]

43. "New River Train" - Leroy Troy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FbtsO9m9mU&mode=related&search=new%20river%20train

[hellbound-liberal]

44. Here's one from Lynyrd Skynyrd: Railroad Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorSIArQ50A

[greendog]

45. "She Caught The Katy" - The Blues Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZUQ6QmnZ1A&mode=related&search=the%20unusual%20suspects%20gabes%2011-24-2006

[greendog]

46. "New Delhi Freight Train" - Terry Allen

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SsN1AcllQ4I

[TommyO]

47. Big Iron Horses by Restless Heart

[stuntcat]

48. 'Train in the Distance' by Paul Simon

just as beautiful as all his songs :D no youtube though

[stuntcat]

49. Morning Train by Sheena Easton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2IA2UYQCA
:headbang:

[stuntcat]

50. The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozh1y7zI0r8

[XemaSab]

51. Texas Eagle on the album "The Mountain" by Steve Earle

:bounce:

[zingaro]

52. Jane Siberry...Something About Trains. Nobody else

knows this song? It's lovely.

[Poiuyt]

53. John Henry - The Steel Driving Man

Great old folk song, sung in prisons and chain gangs

[Whoa_Nelly]

56. Run, Kate Shelley, Run

An obscure song about how Kate Shelley saved the Midnight Express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Shelley

And remembered in a song by train song writer, Larry Penn
http://my.execpc.com/~cookeman/railprog.html

[calimary]

57. "Chicago Northwestern" by Juicy Lucy.

REALLY hard rock by this obscure British group - it was playing all over King's Road in London when my parents took me there one summer when I was in high school. I still like headbanger music.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

58. People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield

People get ready
There's a train a commin'
U don't need no baggage
U just get on board
All U need is faith
To hear the diesels hummin'
U don't need no ticket
U just thank the lord

So people get ready
There'a a train to jordan
Picking up passengers
Coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's hope for all
Among those loved the most

There ain't no room
For the hopeless sinner
Whom would hurt all mankind
Just to save his own
Have pitty on those whose
Chances grow thinner
For there is no hiding place
Against the kingdom's throne

People get ready
There's a train a commin'
U don't need no baggage
U just get on board
All U need is faith
To hear the diesels hummin'
U don't need no ticket
U just thank the lord

[abq e streeter]

66. How in the hell did I forgot this one

one of the most beautiful songs ever...

[hellbound-liberal]

71. I agree, here's a version from Eva Cassidy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqtdNxOs00

[abq e streeter]

74. thanks, wasn't familiar with her--very nice version...

Chambers Brothers version was on same page on you tube; sounded like the version on Love Peace and Happiness, but a treat to see em play it; probably my favorite version besides Curtis Mayfield's. I'm in a 6 piece blues and soul band that does a pretty fair version also, if I do say so myself (and I do). Our singer is in his very first band; just sang in church all his life until a couple of years ago...

[YankeyMCC]

59. "Daddy What's a Train"

Daddy, What's a Train?
(Utah Phillips)

Daddy, What's 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? - oh, how can I explain
When my little boy asks me, "Daddy, what's a train?"

I remember when I was a boy living by the track
Us kids'd gather up the coal in a great big gunny sack
And then we'd hear the warning sound as the train pulled into
view
And the engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through
She blew so loud and clear
That we covered up our ears
And counted cars as high as we could go
I can almost hear the steam
And the big old drivers scream
With a sound my little boy will never know
I guess the times have changed and kids are different now
Some don't even seem to know that milk comes from a cow
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars
And I remember how we memorized the names on railroad cars
The Wabash and TP
Lackawana and IC
Nickel Plate and the good old Sante Fe
Names out of the past
And I know they're fading fast
Everytime I hear my son look up and say

Well, we climbed into the car and drove down into the 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 the memories appear
And it's plain enough to see
They mean a lot to me
'Cause my ambition was to be an engineer

Copyright Strike Music
recorded by Utah Phillips on Good Though
SOF

[zingaro]

61. another one: Southbound Train by Nanci Griffith.

[HughBeaumont]

62. I'm a Train by Albert Hammond.

Remember that one well. Used to play it at Grandma's all the time.

[Orrex]

63. Just about anything by Tom Waits

Okay, so only 70% of his songs are about trains, but they're all goddamned fantastic.

Rod Stewart should be executed for what he did to Downtown Train, among other reasons.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

76. his red or blue

shiny lycra stretch pants --- are two other reasons

[BOSSHOG]

64. "Trains and Boats and Planes" & "The Letter" by the Boxtops

[Jade Fox]

65. The Last Cannonball-Mary McCaslin n/t

[redqueen]

69. CSN - Marrakesh Express

Rush - A Passage to Bangkok


Also the 10th track on Radiohead's latest release In Rainbows is called Videotape... and while it's not about a train, it does have a very lovely train sound at the end, which I love. :)

[Deep13]

70. Folsom Prison Blues. nt

[musiclawyer]

72. Kinks --Last of the steampowered trains"

[hellbound-liberal]

73. Southbound by the Allman Brothers..at least it sounds like it's about trains!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKx3eyOGXzU

[AngryAmish]

75. Driver 8 by REM

can't believe this wasn't included

[QueenOfCalifornia]

77. Lost Train Blues - Woody Guthrie...

Train - 4 Non Blondes
Whiskey Train - Procol Harum
Desporados Waiting For a Train - The Highwaymen

(sorry if these have been posted.)

[QueenOfCalifornia]

78. Hobo's Lullaby - Woodie Guthrie

Arlo did a cover of the song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J72hq9kLyUQ

[taught_me_patience]

79. "Long Train Runnin" - Doobie Brothers

Down around the corner
A half a mile from here
You see them old trains runnin'
And you watch them disappear
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love
You know I saw Miss Lucy
Down along the tracks
She lost her home and her family
And she won't be comin' back
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love

Well the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central Freight
Gotta keep on pushin' Mama
'Cause you know they're runnin' late
Without love
Where would you be now - now, now, now
Without love

Where pistons keep on churnin'
And the wheels go 'round and 'round
And the steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without love
Where would you be right now
Without love
Where would you be now
Long Train Runnin`

[pintobean]

80. Toby Beau - Westbound Train

[Joey Liberal]

82. Train Kept a Rollin' - The Rave Ups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_1xijsjQn0

[Fire Walk With Me]

84. Trans-Europa Express, Kraftwerk; The Metro, Berlin.

[BrotherBuzz]

85. Waitin' for the "103" by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks

[QueenOfCalifornia]

91. I heart Dan Hicks

and his Hot Licks.

[Bryn]

86. I grew up on the train

My dad was a conductor. Ah, such wonderful memories. That's why I collect toy trains.

I think there's a song "Born on train" or something like that? I am hearing impaired so I can't hear songs. I'd love to be able to though. I will see if I can read lyrics here.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

87. Oh my....

Dear Bryn- Here is one:

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.

[Bryn]

89. Beautiful! I love it

Thank you so much for posting this. I am enjoying this. I have missed riding on train so much. I used to play cards with conductors in diner club when I was growing up. When I was old enough to drink, I'd have wine. It is so much better than flying. I really hate airplanes. So uncomfortable and hassles!

I am looking through posts here for lyrics. I am enjoying them! I am glad you started this topic. :hi:

[Bryn]

88. Born on a Train

I googled and found it! People used to tease me that "I was born on a train".

Born On A Train Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Arcade Fire Review The Song (0)


I know that you were never young
And I know you probably won't get old
But honey nobody's gonna hurt you anymore
And nobody's going to make you want to die

But I've been making promises I know I'll never keep
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep
I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name

Baby, I was born on a train.

Some roads you only seen at night
Ghost roads nothing but neon signs.
But some nights the neon gas gets free
And turns into walking dead like me

But I've been making promises I know I'll never keep
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep
I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name

Baby, I was born on a train.

I called one morning cold and grey,
You won't remember anything
Some of us don't believe in time,
And some of us don't believe in life

But I've been making promises I know I'll never keep
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep
I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name

Baby, I was born on a train
Baby, I was born on a train
Baby, I was born on a train
Baby, I was born on a train
Baby, I was born on a train

[QueenOfCalifornia]

90. Here is the Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_5cK3XSLI

of Born on a Train

(sounds sort of like Tom Waits)

[Bryn]

92. What a ride!!

:bounce:

[Lasher]

93. Life's Railway to Heaven by Patsy Cline

Video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7256900952558475856&q=life%27s+railway+to+heaven&total=13&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=9

Johnny Cash, Mearle Haggard, and others did this one.

[donheld]

94. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Bob Dylan

:bounce:

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95. Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers

:bounce::bounce:

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96. 5:15 - Chris Isaak

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

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97. People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

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98. This Train Revisited - Indigo Girls

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

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99. When Love Comes To Town - B. B. King/U2

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

100. Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore -- Harry Nilsson

Animation by Pixar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80LqGE1agwA




R.I.P. Harry!! :cry: :cry: :cry:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

102. From A Rolls To The Rails

I can't find the lyrics but Boxcar Willie did this and I think dedicated it to KitchenWitch.

[chieftain]

103. The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. Not soulful as others

which have been mentioned, but it is the railway which employed my family for multiple generations. The railroads were the entry point for many Irish immigrants and their descendants. The lure of trains will never fade for me.

[bikebloke]

104. Les Rails by Zazie

Dragon by Paolo Conte

[fight4my3sons]

105. Catch that Train by Dan Zanes

listen to a lot of Dan Zanes with my kids :)