• From: Starkville, Mississippi USA
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Topic: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

I have just posted a songbook (Train Tracks 1) full of train-related songs. I'm hoping some other folks will want to assemble more books of similar tunes. There must be thousands of railroad-related tunes. It would be fun to amass some more collections of songs that are all about trains (or just mention trains).


I noticed that the 'Country & Western' songbook category had very few books posted, so I put 'Train Tracks 1' together to get the ball rolling (it just seemed like a natural). 


So - here's the challenge . . . put together your own 'Train Tracks' songbook and publish it in the Country & Western category.  If you don't want to put together your own book, then just reply to this posting with suggestions or comments . . .


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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

good idea James, but something  ithink i will give a miss since I am going to be very busy moving house in the next few weeks. Then I thin kI might be offline for a while until I argue with sefveral internet and phone companies until I get what I want, ( and I will get what I want,lol,)


So a few suggestions from the top of my head are:


runaway train by kasey chambers


runaway train by ???? hmmm, primal scream? ( called you up in the middle of the night etcetc)


train kept a rollin  aerosmith


the boxer , by simon and garfunkel ( was wrote at preston train station in england and mentions train)


house of the risiing sun ( I've one foot on the platform, and the other on a train)


ive been working on the....



yeah lots of songs. Hope a lot take you up on the offer.


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

train in vain. UFO

train train. Blackfoot

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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

hey hey!


It Takes a lot to Laugh, but it takes a Train to Cry-       Bob Dylan


The Monkey and the Engineer-Grateful Dead


Locomotive Breath-Jethro Tull


plus an old one that uncle lem played...maybe someone could tell me the name?

V1.. black smokes a risin and it surely is a train...

V2.. lost all my money but a two dollar bill...

V3.. wanta see my baby boys wanta see her bad...

all verses end with this line- I'm on my long journey home.

sound familiar?


peace, slim

  • From: Starkville, Mississippi USA
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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

Thanks for all the excellent suggestions - keep them coming . . . I shall begin assembling another 'Train Tracks' songbook soon. 


Please keep posting more suggestions as they come to mind.  Anybody out there in Chordieland interested in collaborating on the editing?

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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

Orange Blossom Special

Folsum Prison Blues

Cannonball Express

Bald Knob Arkansas

Crazy Train

Peace Train

Without Love (Where would you be now?)

Casey Jones (Driving that train, high on cocaine...)


And of course, anything by Boxcar Willie.



I've done similar lists "Songs about Cadillacs" and "Cars, Liquor, and Women."

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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore by Jean Ritchie





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Re: Train Songs - A Good Idea?

Rolling Stones -- Love in Vain


Johnny Cash  --  Folsom Prison Blues

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