[Closed] train themed/inspired songs please..

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Pat Metheny Last Train Home. Lots of big steam train in the vid too 🙂 My boy loves it.

Homeward Bound

Or many others from the man in black

Trans - Europe Express Kraftwerk
Mystery Train Billy Swan

Princess of the Night by Saxon

The Ballard of John Axon - Ewan McColl

Engine number nine by Wilson Pickett, it has a truly funky walking bass line.

Railroad man by the Eels, drum pattern sounds like a train.

Stop the train, early Bob Marley track.

National Express by the Divine Comedy.

Anything by Blyth Power.

National Express by the Divine Comedy.

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Sheena Easton 9-5
Supertramp - Rudy

Wabash Cannonball by Woody Guthrie and others.
Folsom Prison Blues, Orange Blossom.Special by JR Cash

Not trains as such, but the railways...

Different Trains - Steve Reich

Ronnie Biggs was doing time til he done a bunk!

Rock Island line - Buddy Holly

Train In The Distance - Paul Simon

Crazy train - ozzy osbourne

Half man, half biscuit - Time flies by (when your the driver of a train)

Don't forget to label your songs for those viewing on mobiles.
Thank you.

(obviously) Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

Love in Vain - Robert Johnson or Rolling Stones

of course this:

OCS - the day we caught the train
Gladys night - midnight train to Georgia
KLF - last train to transcentral.

John Fahey's [i]Railroad[/i] album.

The Farm - Groovy train
KLF - Last train to trancentral

and about half of the Blues ouevre from the mid twentieth century 🙂

The Cure: jumping someone else's train.

Train in vain: The Clash

Mercury Rev: Hudson Line.

Features some lovely sax by Garth Hudson of The Band.

inspired stuf, guys thanks!

just stumbled across the "wedding website" from a cousin of mine who's fella is a bit of a train nerd. they've a page for suggesting songs. problem is i am now running out of Thomas the Tank Engine characters.

If its for a wedding there [i]has[/i] to be a joke about the Fat controller in there somewhere.

the Fat Controller has already suggested two sings....

Traintime - Cream. Jack Bruce in full flow.

If you can sit still to this, I'll buy you a drink.
Subway Joe - Joe Bataan.

Clint Eastwood and General Saint - Stop that train.

Morningtown Ride - The Seekers:

A little boy named Train - Green Day

(Waiting for the) Ghost Train - Madness

Oh, and............Coal Train to Hatfield Main - The Housemartins (sorry, couldn't find a vid!).

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

Warrant - Train, train.

Skynrd - Railroad Song

And a bonus, train related album cover;
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Although technically about an alcoholic beverage

flux of pink Indians - tube disasters

Locomotive Breath ?

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (if you;ve seen the vis you'll appreciate why)

Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams

Stimela, Hugh Masekela

motorhead - locomotive

Porcupine Tree- Trains
Chris Rea - Deltics

Glenn Miller Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo

Sterophonics . Graffiti on a train.

Godley and Cream . Under your thumb .

Blood on the tracks? Dylan

Downtown Train--Rod Stewart
www.dailymotion.com/video/x26l6k_rod-stewart-downtown-train_music

Hellbound Train -- Savoy Brown (not sure how many here are old enough to remember Savoy Brown)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqqeobOJvg

If Ann Peebles or Tina Turner was from Yorkshire...

I can't stand t'rain

I can't believe this thread's running out of steam already. 🙂

If my train goes off the track pick it up, pick it up, pick it up...

One more.

Oh and maybe some crazed rockabilly with a granny on vocals.

Oh, and has anyone mentioned that KLF song yet?

Alabama 3 - Last train to Mashville

Alabama 3 - The gospel train

Travis - Why Does It Always Train On Me?
Slayer - Train In Blood.
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Treindeer.
Anything by John Coltrane.

Here to help.

Downtown Train, by Tom Waits. The Rod Stewart version is a later cover.

FREIGHT TRAIN
(Libba Cotten - written about 1905)

Chas McDevitt & Nancy Whiskey - 1957
Rusty Draper - 1957
Roy Acuff - 1965
Jim & Jesse - 1971

Also recorded by:

Pete Seeger; Elizabeth Cotten; The Overlanders; Peter & Gordon;
Dick & Dee Dee; Chet Atkins; Esther & Abi Ofarim; Dave Dudley;
Peter, Paul & Mary; Joan Baez; Mac Wiseman; Peter Morse;
New Lost City Ramblers.

Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone.

Freight train, freight train, going round the bend
Freight train, freight train, gone again
One of these days turn that train around
Go back to my home town

Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone

One more place I'd like to be
One more place I'd love to see
To watch those old Blue Ridge Mountain climb
While I ride old Number Nine

Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone

When I die please bury me deep
Down at the end of Chestnut Street
So I can hear old Number Nine
As she goes rolling by

Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Freight train, freight train, going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone

When I'm dead and in my grave
No more good times here I'll crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
And tell them I've gone to sleep

Freight train, freight train, going so fast,
Freight train, freight train, going so fast.
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone

Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone.

I just came down from Chippewa
Had as station wagon and a hundred dollars
Thinking about the girl I'd lost a year before
I hadn't seen her for some time
Thought I might go on by when your memory came flooding in and you closed that door.

Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door.
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it didnt have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train.

Well every time I talk to you I hear your jealous lines
I feel like I've been left abandoned on some old railway side
And every time I hear your voice my water just gets cold
My stoker will not stoke and my boiler will not boil.

Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door.
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it didnt have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train.

Well every time I fell behind I could not get ahead
I wish someone would pull the lever and give me a little sand
And every time I slip behind even further back
I wish some switch man would come out of the fog and change my track.

Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door.
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it didnt have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train.

Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door.
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it didnt have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train baby
Wish it was a freight train.

You're No Train, by Kris Delmhorst.
http://www.last.fm/music/Kris+Delmhorst/Songs+for+a+Hurricane/You%27re+no+Train
No video, Kris doesn't have the money, neither does her record label.

Well a train blows a whistle before it pulls away
But no word or warning do you say
One minute right beside me, another you're a thousand miles away

Well I felt such a shaking and I heard such a whirr
And I swore we were moving fast enough to blur
Then I opened up my eyes and found that we're right back where we were

Baby you're no train, you're the track
Always running away, always running back
Baby you're no train, you're the steam blowing by

How I longed for the journey, and those far distant lands
I believed all your promises and plans
Now I'm standing at the station with a lonely ticket in my hand

Baby you're no train, you're the track
Always running away and running back
Baby you're no train, you're the silence behind
So roll on

Songwriters
Kristina S Delmhorst

Published by
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Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow City of New Orleans

We've had the best, Morning Town Ride, then old 97, try Lonnie Donegan's version.
How about this, Casey Jones;