Get on the Love Train--Love Train

[Murphy Siding]

With so much "heavy" talk on this forum lately, how about something on the light side? On another thread, about steam locomotives, (Am I a Traitor?) someone posted a good reply about steamers that made me think of a song. How about songs with train references?[:D]

"Big train from Memphis,now it's gone,gone,gone."

- John Fogerty

[Anonymous]

Love Train by the OJ's
City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie

[Anonymous]

I've Been Working on the Railroad (traditional);
Take the Last Train to Clarksville (The Monkees).

[Tulyar15]

There's another track by the Monkees which includes the lines

"What am I doing hanging on?"
"I should be on that train and gone"

but I cant remember the title

[TheS.P.caboose]

Tulyar15, I think the song title is "What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round" by the Monkees.

[Murphy Siding]

"Take the last train to Clarksville, and I'll meet you at the station"

also by t e Monkees

[JoeKoh]

i'm a train by albert hammond
long train running doobie brothers
tuesdays gone(train roll on) skynrd and redone by metallica
boxcar blues and wabash cannonball by boxcar willie
just to name a few
stay safe
joe

[MP173]

Neil Young's Southern Pacific

"I rode the highball
I fired the Daylight
When I turned 65
I couldnt see right

"It was Mr. Jones,
we gotta let you go
It's company policy,
you'll have a pension tho


Roll on,
Southern Pacific
On your silver rails
on your silver rails
Roll on Southern Pacific
on your silver rails
Through the moonlight"

I aint no brake man
Aint no conductor
But I would be though
If I was younger


Roll on.

[Anonymous]

"Hear My Train a Com'n" by Jimi Hendrix

"Choo Choo Mama" by Ten Years After

"Casey Jones" by Grateful Dead

"Waiting for a train" by Johnny Cash

"Hot rails to h311" by Blue Oyster Cult

[CopCarSS]

Pardon me boys...is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

And I'm kind of partial to the Steve Goodman version of "City of New Orleans" since he wrote it. No offense to Arlo, or any other artists. Steve just does it "right" to me.

I like "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo, though!

[tree68]

I first heard Hammond's "I'm a Train" when my kids were watching Captain Kangaroo, accompanying a video of trains. Included was an articulated loco. Wish I could find that video...

And to add to the list - "Brother Can You Spare A Dime." 'Once I had a railroad, made it run...'

[rvos1979]

"Train Kept A-Rollin'" by Aerosmith
"Locomotive Breath" by Jethro Tull

Randy

[fuzzybroken]

"Train, train... take me on out of this town..." -- I don't know who did the original, but I know Warrant recorded it on their "Cherry Pie" album.

[:D]
-Mark
www.fuzzyworld3.com

[Anonymous]

hell bound train..by savoy brown,,,

[Murphy Siding]

"I was drunk the day my mama got outta prison
and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station
in my pick up truck-
She got run over by a ***ed old train!"

You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin',Darlin' -by David Allen Coe

[edblysard]

Oh, great...
Now I have "The Love Train" playing in my head...and "The Last Train to Clarksville" too...
And for some unknown reason, Sonny and Cher's "The Beat goes On" is in there also...

Oh well, at least you can understand the words!

Ed[8D]

[CShaveRR]

Any Chicagoan with the slightest bit of culture knows enough to "Let the Midnight Special/Shine its ever-lovin' light on me!"

When you hear the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone...

Chris, you're dead-on about the City of New Orleans, and Steve Goodman.

[CopCarSS]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

"I was drunk the day my mama got outta prison
and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station
in my pick up truck-
She got run over by a ***ed old train!"

You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin',Darlin' -by David Allen Coe

Another Steve Goodman song!

Chris
Denver, CO

[vsmith]

Funny you should ask...just picked up an Anthology CD of Louis Jordan, swing band leader from the 40's and 50's, two terrific train songs on the CD

Choo Cho Cha-Boogie

Headin' for the station with a pack on my back
I'm tired of transportation in the back of my hack
I love to hear the rhythm of the clickety clack
And hear the lonesome whistle see the smoke from the stack
To pal around with democratic fellow named Mac
So take me right back to the track, jack

Choo-choo, choo-choo, ch'boogie, woo-woo
Woo-woo, ch'boogie, choo-choo, choo-choo, ch'boogie
Take me right back to the track, jack

You reach your destination but you don't go back
You need some compensation to get back in the black
You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
And read the situations from the front to the back
But the only job that's open needs a man with a knack
So put it right back in the rack, jack

Choo-choo, choo-choo, ch'boogie, woo-woo
Woo-woo, ch'boogie, choo-choo, choo-choo, ch'boogie
Take me right back to the track, jack

Gonna settle down by the railroad track
Live the life o'riley in the beat down shack
When i hear a whistle i can peep thru the crack
Watch the train rollin' when it's ballin' the jack
Love to hear the rhythm of the clickety clack
So take me right back to the track, jack

Choo-choo, choo-choo, ch'boogie, woo-woo
Woo-woo, ch'boogie, choo-choo, choo-choo, ch'boogie
Take me right back to the track, jack

Take me right back to the track, jack


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Texas and Pacific

I know you’ve heard of the Chatanooga Choo Choo
The Rock Island, the New York Central
The New Haven & Hartford, the Pennsylvannia
The Missouri Pacific, the Southern Pacific,
The Northern Pacific is terrific
Oh but Jack, you’ve heard of the I.C. and the Santa Fee
But you gotta take a ride on the T.P.

By the time I going to Texas and Pacific
Best big deal in the state
About a half an hour to be specific
Cowtown’s just a short way
Heading southwest on the Texas and Pacific
Big wheels blacken’ ‘round
Oh the sights that I take in are terrific
I’m West Texas bound

Say Mr Porter, I’ve wired my gal
She’s waiting in El Paso for me
Say Mr Porter, that’s Pecos no less
My Stetson needs a dustin’ and my pants need a press

Guess I’ll have to find a half to tip the porter
Fifteen minutes he says
When I arrive we’ll take a trip across the border
Honeymoon in Jaurez
Cause the T.P. Special
Gets me there in much less

[:D]

[Anonymous]

My wife helped me here;

Can't You See---Marshal Tucker Band
Crazy Train--Ozzy Osborne

[Anonymous]

Silver Train by The Rolling Stones

[rockisland4309]

"Train Of Consequences"-Megadeth

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by fuzzybroken

"Train, train... take me on out of this town..." -- I don't know who did the original, but I know Warrant recorded it on their "Cherry Pie" album.

[:D]
-Mark
www.fuzzyworld3.com

a band called the allman brothers i believe
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

On John Denver's "All Aboard" CD, there's a song "Daddy, what's a Train?";
also on it is "Chatanooga Choo-Choo" and "Choo-Choo Cha Boogie". All
very good songs. There's also the song about the Gandy Dancers, among
others.

[gacuster]

"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash.....I hear the train a comin', it's rollin' round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when...
"Orange Blossom Special" by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash....Lookee yonder comin', comin' down that railroad track....

[Anonymous]

HOW about the the train they call the city of new orlins i "ll be gone 500 miles befor the day is gone... glennbob

[Anonymous]

Midnight train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the pimps

[kschmidt]

How about

"The Rock Island Line " - is a mighty fine line.

And a song that I believe several threads on this Forum dealt with last year -

"Long Black Train" - Jo***urner

Keith

[chad thomas]

What about Crazy Train-Ozzy Ozbourne / Randy Rhodes

[Anonymous]

What about "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osborne w/o Randy Rhodes??