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"I hear the train a'coming, it's coming round the bend . . . " is the first line of "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash. <br /> <br />One song I remember in particular from THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES was called, I think "The Wreck of Old No. 97." It ends with the gruesome lines "He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle/A-scalded to death by the steam." [xx(] <br /> <br />I like "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" as a swing song, but it has an inaccuracy. People on that train were unlikely to eat their "ham and eggs in Carolina" because the best routing to Chattanooga from the north was Washington-Lynchburg-Roanoke-Bristol TN/VA - Knoxville-Chattanooga (other trains went on to Birmingham, Memphis and N.O.). <br /> <br />Has anyone mentioned "Midnight Train to Georgia"? <br /> <br />allen <br />
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