Some traveling music, please.

[Ptah]

In about twelve hours, I'll be boarding
Amtrak, heading for a meet-up about fifteen hours
(700 miles) away.

#1 in the rotation:

"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.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)


#2 on the play list:

"Take the A Train"

by Billy Strayhorn,

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 Board!)

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

[datasuspect]

1. eastbound and down - jerry reed

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

Keep your foot hard on the pedal. Son, never mind them brakes.
Let it all hang out 'cause we got a run to make.
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarkana.
And we'll bring it back no matter what it takes.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

Ol' Smokey's got them ears on and he's hot on your trail.
He aint gonna rest 'til you're in jail.
So you got to dodge 'im and you got to duck 'im,
you got to keep that diesel truckin'.
Just put that hammer down and give it hell.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.


hear my train - jimi hendrix


Well, I wait around the train station
Waitin' for that train
Waitin' for the train, yeah
Take me home, yeah
From this lonesome place
Well, now a while lotta people put me down a lotta changes
My girl had called me a disgrace

Dig
The tears burnin'
Tears burnin' me
Tears burnin' me
Way down in my heart
Well, you know it's too bad, little girl,
it's too bad
Too bad we have to part (have to part)

Dig
Gonna leave this town, yeah
Gonna leave this town
Gonna make a whole lotta money
Gonna be big, yeah
Gonna be big, yeah
I'm gonna buy this town
I'm gonna buy this town
An' put it all in my shoe
Might even give a piece to you
That's what I'm gonna do,
what I'm gonna do,
what I'm gonna do

[Ptah]

4. I'll pass on the convoy and take Jimi

Thanks.

:hi:

[datasuspect]

6. did somebody say "CONVOY????"

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

[mark414]

2. just about anything by woody guthrie

Hard Travelin'

I've been havin' some hard travelin', I thought you knowed
I've been havin' some hard travelin', way down the road
I've been havin' some hard travelin', hard ramblin', hard gamblin'
I've been havin' some hard travelin', lord

I've been ridin' them fast rattlers, I thought you knowed
I've been ridin' them flat wheelers, way down the road
I've been ridin' them blind passengers, dead-enders, kickin' up cinders
I've been havin' some hard travelin', lord

I've been hittin' some hard-rock minin', I thought you knowed
I've been leanin' on a pressure drill, way down the road
Hammer flyin', air-hole suckin', six foot of mud and I shore been a muckin'
And I've been hittin' some hard travelin', lord

I've been hittin' some hard harvestin', I thought you knowed
North Dakota to Kansas City, way down the road
Cuttin' that wheat, stackin' that hay, and I'm tryin' make about a dollar a day
And I've been havin' some hard travelin', lord

I've been working that Pittsburgh steel, I thought you knowed
I've been a dumpin' that red-hot slag, way down the road
I've been a blasting, I've been a firin', I've been a pourin' red-hot iron
I've been hittin' some hard travelin', lord

I've been layin' in a hard-rock jail, I thought you knowed
I've been a laying out 90 days, way down the road
Damned old judge, he said to me, "It's 90 days for vagrancy."
And I've been hittin' some hard travelin', lord

I've been walking that Lincoln highway, I thought you knowed,
I've been hittin' that 66, way down the road
Heavy load and a worried mind, lookin' for a woman that's hard to find,
I've been hittin' some hard travelin', lord

[Ptah]

5. I hope this trip isn't Hard Travelin'

Good song, I'll try to find it.

Thanks.

:hi:

[mark414]

13. yeah...he didn't really write many songs about easy traveling

but i suppose that's cause he seldom had much of that for himself

[taterguy]

3. A few suggestions

Mystery Train (Multiple versions)
Todd Snider's Play a Train Song
She Caught the Katy Blues Brothers or Taj Mahal
Anything by Johnny Cash

[Ptah]

7. Blues Brothers and Johhny Cash are now on my list.

Thanks.

:hi:

[Rambis]

8. I Know you Rider

Grateful Dead-
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
Id shine my light through cool colorado rain


Casy Jones!
Ridin that train high on cocaine CasyJones you better watch your speed-

Big Railroad blues
Well my mama told me, my papa told me too
Well my mama told me, my papa told me too
Well I shouldn't be here trying to sing these railroad blues

[datasuspect]

9. midnight train to georgia

L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know,
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
He kept dreamin'
That someday he'd be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,
He said he would
Be leavin
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
Go, gonna board, gonna board,
Gonna board the midnight train.
Gotta go, gonna board
Gonna board
Gonna board the midnight train
(repeat, fade)

[Ptah]

11. Alright! Three more travelin' tunes!

Thanks.

:hi:

[Rambis]

19. More Grateful Dead

Jack Straw
Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride

Might As Well
Long train running from coast to coast

New Speedway Boogie
This train's got to run today

Tennessee Jed
Listen to the whistle of the evening train

Terrapin Station
But the train's put it brakes on, and the whistle is screaming

They Love Each Other
It's nothing, they explain, it's like a diesel train
And when that train rolls in, you won't know where it's been

Tons Of Steel
She's more a roller coaster than the train I used to know

[wildhorses]

23. definitely some Todd Snider:

Smoking long black Cadillac, the engines winding down
Hed park up on the sidewalk like he owned the whole damn town
Id hear him talking to some chick, through a thick ghost of smoke

Through a thicker haze of southern comfort and coke
Hed say youre hotter than the hinges hanging off the gates of hell
Dont be afraid to turn to me, babe, if he dont treat you well
And by he, he meant me so I laughed and I shook his hand
He laughed a little bit louder as hed yell up at the band

Play a train song, pour me one more round
Make em leave my boots on when they lay me into the ground

I am a run away locomotive out of my one track mind
And Im looking for any kind of trouble that I can find
I got this old black leather jacket, got this pack of Marlboro reds
I got this stash here in my pocket; I got these thoughts in my own head
The right to run until I got to walk or until I got to crawl
This moment that Im in right now and nothing else at all
Play a train song, pour me one more round
Make em leave my boots on when they lay me into the ground
I am a run away locomotive out of my one track mind
And im looking for any kind of trouble that I can find
(Instrumental verse w/ harmonica)
In the television blizzard lights, we looked around his place
Found him cold there on the sofa, a little smile across his face
And though I tried with all of my sadness somehow I just could not weep
For a man who looked to me like he died laughing in his sleep
Singing a train song, drinking one last round
We made em leave his boots on, on the day they laid him down
He was a runaway locomotive out of his one track mind
Play a train song, play a train song; play a train song

[datasuspect]

10. skip james

illinois blues

You go to Banglin', tell my boys
You go to Banglin', tell my boys
What times I'm havin' up in Illinois
In Illinois, up in Illinois

When I gin2 my little cotton I'm going to sell my seed
When I gin my little cotton and sell my seed
I'm gonna give my baby, everything she need
Everything she need, ev'rything she need
I'm gonna give my baby everything she need

You know, I been in Texas and I been in Arkansas
I been in Texas and I been in Arkansas
But I never had a good time till I got to Illinois
Up in Illinois, up in Illinois

The people will treat you just so-so so'
You'll never go back to old Banglin' no more
Never no more, never no more

I been to Chicago and I been to Detroit
I been to Chicago and I been to Detroit
But I never had a good time till I got up in Illinois
In Illinois, up in Illinois

When you go down in Banglin', will you tell my boys
When you go down in Banglin', tell my boys
What a good time's a-waitin' up in Illinois
Up in Illinois, up in Illinois



get on down the road


If you haven't any hay, get on down the road
If you haven't any hay, mama Lord, go, get on down the road
Get on down the road
Get on down the road
If you haven't any hay, mama, Lord, go, get on down the road

I'm goin', I'm goin', comin' here no more
If I go to Louisiana, mama Lord, though, they'll hang me sure
They'll hang me sure
They'll hang me sure
If I go to Louisiana, mama Lord, they'll hang me...

If you haven't any hay, get on down the road
If you haven't any hay, Lord, Lord, get on down the road

I'm goin', I'm goin', comin' back no more
I'm goin', I'm goin', partner, never comin' back no more
Comin' back no more
Comin' back no...
I'm goin', I'm goin', mama, never comin' back no...

Hey hey, hey-hey-hey-hey
Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey
Hey hey hey hey

Hitch up my buggy, saddle up my black mare
You'll find me a rider, mama, Lord, so in this world somewhere
In this world somewhere
In this world somewhere
You can find me a rider, mama, look here, in this world somewhere

If you haven't any hay, get on down the road
If you haven't any hay, mama, look here, get on down the...
Get on down the road
Get on down the road
If you haven't any hay, mama, look here, get on down the...

[Ptah]

12. illinois blues and for the return trip Lookin' Out My Backdoor. n/t

[RedStateShame]

14. Guided by Voices, "Motor Away"

When you motor away beyond the once-red lips
When you free yourself from the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And then the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?

When you motor away down the icy streets
You cant lie to yourself that it's the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?

Come on
Speed on

[speedoo]

15. My favorite... you all know it:

Words and music by Mars Bonfire

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild

Rock on!!:headbang:

[Ptah]

16. Born to be WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD

:woohoo: :applause:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Ptah!

No travelling songs from me......

Just this wish: That the road rise up before you, and that God hold you close in the palm of his hand.........

Safe Journey, my dear Ptah.........safe journey....... :hug:

Till we meet, this coming Friday.....

[Ptah]

20. See you soon, my good heighbor.

:hug:

"Just this wish: That the road rise up before you, and that God hold you close in the palm of his hand........."

:loveya: :grouphug: :pals:

[speedoo]

18. Will you be traveling on The Rock Island Line, by any chance?

The Rock Island Line

(Huddie Ledbetter 'Lead Belly')

Chorus:

Oh the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line

Oh the Rock Island Line is the road to ride

Oh the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line

If you want to ride, you gotta ride it like you're flyin'

Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line

A-B-C double X-Y-Z

Cat's in the cupboard and she cain't find me

CH

Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong

Lawd you gonna miss me when I'm gone

CH

Jesus died to save our sins

Glory to God I'm gonna see Him again

CH

Moses stood on the Red Sea shore

Smotin' the water with a two-by-four

CH X2

[Ptah]

22. I'll be singing The Rock Island Line,

but I'll be on The Sunset Limited.

Thanks for the great suggestion.

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

21. Marshall Tucker Band, The Black Crowes and Allman Brothers

Artist: Marshall Tucker Band
Song: Can'T You See
Album:


I'm gonna take a freight train, down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb me a mountain, the highest mountain, Lord,
Gonna jump off, nobody gonna know
Can't you see, can't you see, what that woman, Lord, been doin' to me
Can't you see, can't you see, what that woman she been doin' to me
I'm gonna find me a hole in the wall, gonna crawl inside and die
That lady, mean ol' woman Lord, never told me goodbye
Can't you see, can't you see, what that woman. Lord, she been doin' to me
Can't you see, can't you see, what that woman been doin' to me
Gonna buy me a ticket now, as far as I can, ain't never comin' back
Take me Southbound, all the way to Georgia now, till the train run out of track
Can't you see, can't you see, what that woman, Lord, she been doin' to me
Can't you see, can't you see, what that woman been doin' to me
Cant you seee......cant you seee... what that woman lord....she been doin to me....
cant you seee.....cant you seee.... what that woman....she been doin to me......(x4)


Wiser Time - The Black Crowes

no time left now for shame, horizon behind me, no more pain
windswept stars blink and smile, another song, another mile
you read the line every time, ask me about crime in my mind
ask me why another read song, funny but i bet you never left home

chorus: on a good day, it's not every day, we can part the sea
and on a bad day, it's not every day, glory beyond our reach

seconds until sunrise, tired but wiser for the time
lightning 30 miles away, three thousand more in two days

(chorus


and my favorite instrumental traveling song is Jessica by the Allman Brothers.


Safe journey!

[Tikki]

24. "Time is Tight"...Booker T & the MGs......if you are traveling in your...

car (or box car) in an open-space area... for any length of time... you got to cruise to this number going down the road (rails).



Tikki

[bif]

25. Taj Mahal

Especially his older stuff.