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'
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 - 1971Also 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 townFreight 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 goneOne 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 NineFreight 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 goneWhen I die please bury me deep
Down at the end of Chestnut Street
So I can hear old Number Nine
As she goes rolling byFreight 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 goneWhen 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 sleepFreight 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 gonePlease don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I'm gone.
Freight Train, by Alan Jackson, Lindisfarne (different song)
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 awayWell 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 wereBaby you're no train, you're the track
Always running away, always running back
Baby you're no train, you're the steam blowing byHow 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 handBaby 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 onSongwriters
Kristina S DelmhorstPublished by
BIG BEAN MUSIC
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;
Can't believe we've not had any Jimmy Rodgers yet, the singing brakesman FFS!
try Lonnie Donegan's version.
Very good, I'd forgotten about Casey Jones, a great favourite of mine along with Champion the Wonder Horse!

