DB Cooper Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 In April I'm traveling by rail from Michigan to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to visit my son. I'm taking along my little Washburn Rover to play quietly during my 35 hour train ride. Been thinking about all the train songs out there, and thought I'd try to come up with a list. Help me! Please list the song title, artist, and if need be, the railroad connection (lyric, etc.) I'll start: Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash ("I hear that train a comin' - it's rollin' round the bend...") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Princess of the Night - Saxon "She used to be an iron horse 20 years ago...used to bring the mail to me through the ice and snow...I sat alone and watched her steaming through the night, 90 tons of thunder lighting up the sky" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobrollar Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Monkey and the Engineer - Jesse Fuller/Grateful Dead too Back on the Train & Train Song - Phish Both good folky train songs....pretty easy to play too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Blackfoot- "Train, Train" Waylon Jennings- "Luchenbach Texas" - ".... Hank Williams pain songs, and Newbury's train songs...." Grand Funk Railroad/ Little Eva- "Locomotion" Soggy Bottom Boys- "Man of Constant Sorrow"- "...For I'm bound to ride that northern railroad, Perhaps I'll die upon this train. (Perhaps he'll die upon this train.)" Jethro Tull- "Locomotive Breath" Glenn Miller- "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevef Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 "City of New Orleans" - Arlo Guthrie "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" - Gordon Lightfoot.. "Casey Jones" - Dead (driving that train high on cocaine...) "Southbound Train" - C.S&N "Midnight Special" - CCR "Gilbert Street" - Swee Thursday You may end up on one of the old Sante Fe Chief trains (southwest chief) . So.. "Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe" - Judy Garland Have a gerat trip!!! Does seem a little weird that someone named DBCOOPER would be taking the train instead of flying (don't forget your chute) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Blues train... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I think if you came up through the folkie era and culture as I sorta did in the late 50s, early 60s, you couldn't begin even to remember even the ones you once did on stage. <grin> "Her husband was a railroad man, died a mile and a half outa town. His head was found in the driver wheel... his body, it never was found..." <chortle> So many... Heck I can't remember all the names, let alone lyrics. "Midnight Special," of course. Freight Train. FFV (Fast Flying Vestibule... Along came the FFV, the fastest on the line...) Even John Henry. I Never Will Marry. Wreck of the old 97. Casey Jones. Smokestack Lightnin'. Trouble in Mind (Gonna lay my head, on that lonesome railroad line, let the 2:19 satisfy my mind.) Etc. and far, far more... I don't think many here remember steam trains. I do, barely. There's something about the accessibility of trains "in the day" that we ain't got now. As Gordon Lightfoot wrote, "You can't catch a jet plane like you can a freight train..." m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Gotta throw in Buffett's railroad lady...written with some help form Jerry Jeff Walker She's a railroad lady Just a little bit shady Spendin' her days on the trains She's a semi-good looker But the fast rails they took 'er Now she's tryin', just tryin' to get home again South Station in Boston to the stock yards of Austin From the Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain Now that the rail p.a.c.s Have taken the best tracks She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again She's a railroad lady Just a little bit shady Spendin' her life on a train Once a pullman car traveller Now the switchmen won't have 'er She's tryin', just tryin' to get home again Once a high ballin' loner he thought he could own 'er Bought her a fur and a big diamond ring She hocked 'em for cold cash in a town on the Wabash Never thinkin', never thinkin' of home way back then But the rails are now rusty The dinin' car's dusty Gold plated watches have taken their toll Yeah the railroads are dyin' And the lady she's cryin' On a bus to Kentucky and home that's her goal She's a railroad lady Just a little bit shady Spendin' her life on a train She's a semi-good looker But the fast rails they took 'er Now she's tryin', just tryin' to get home again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 My fav train song..... Mystery Train by Elvis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Cooper Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 You may end up on one of the old Sante Fe Chief trains (southwest chief) . So.. "Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe" - Judy Garland Have a great trip!!! Does seem a little weird that someone named DBCOOPER would be taking the train instead of flying (don't forget your chute) I will actually be on the Southwest Chief... And no, I can't take a plane because they're still looking for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 The guy said he misspelled "Wabash on purpose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigh Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Two Trains Running - Muddy Waters/The Blues Project/Butterfield Blues Band It Takes A Lot To Laugh,It Takes A Train To Cry - Bob Dylan Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y2_aDVWfJc How could we forget? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 John Fogerty's Big Train from Memphis off of his Centerfield Album and of course don't forget Proud Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlhAc1z4qY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFH0SqdKJ0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I did this very post several months ago. Train songs are near and dear to many of our hearts. List of Train Songs Train Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grawbad Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Soul Asylum - Runaway Train Lyric relevance: Runaway train never going back, wrong way on a one way track, seems like I should be getting somewhere, somehow I'm neither here nor there. Journey - Don't Stop Believing Lyric relevance: Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train going anywhere. Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit, he took the midnight train going anywhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I-SbwCHJ80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Train songs. So many tracks to pick from ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D74rJzHFdg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANNIC Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammin' Joe Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Railroad Song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6K0QpVvy5M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Is this what you were really looking for? My personal favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexygibson Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Kenny Rogers - The Gambler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlhAc1z4qY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFH0SqdKJ0 I thought that 'Proud Mary' was about a steamboat, 'a riverboat queen' - hence the big wheel, rather than the wheels of steel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 "Train Kept a Rollin'": Tiny Bradshaw, Johnny Burnette Trio, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Motörhead, etc. For my money Burnette wins the award for best version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufzRV3xspYA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.