Favorite Train Lines

Beyond The Sun said:
Came of age and found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit it on the sly
Well I tried to kill the pain,
Bought some wine and hopped a train
Seemed easier than waitin around to die

"Waitin' Around to Die" Townes Van Zandt
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I play that song occasionally at shows.
 
I like that Hank Williams song lonesome whistle...where he says "I was ridin number 9, headin south to Caroline, I heard that lonesome whistle blow," and then when he says "They pulled me off, the Georgia main, locked me to, a ball and chain, I heard the lonesome whistle blow." Kinda a sad song. I play it sometimes. oh yeah, and that Roger Miller song, when he says "third box car, mid nite train, destination Bangor Maine, Old worn out coat and shoes, I dont pay no union dues...." I really like the lyrics. Fuck I just like songs about trains haha
 
Don't you worry about tomorrow
Tomorrow will come and go
Tonight your in a warm boxcar
Away from the cold and the snow

-Guthrie

oh ya then theres this one that is kind of unrelated but fuck it

Her husband was a railroad man
About a mile from here
His head was found in the driver wheel
And his body never was found

-old folk song made popular by Leadbelly called either "Black Girl or Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
 
mashedtaters said:
I like that Hank Williams song lonesome whistle...where he says "I was ridin number 9, headin south to Caroline, I heard that lonesome whistle blow," and then when he says "They pulled me off, the Georgia main, locked me to, a ball and chain, I heard the lonesome whistle blow."
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Johnny Cash covered that song. It's a great track, though I have the version remixed by Apparat, which is just epic.




I've dug this song lately: The Sandman, The Brakeman, and Me


Monsters of Folk said:
The Brakeman is letting off some steam,
This has to be the slowest train that I have ever seen
and the Sandman's waiting to deliver me my dream,
Guess I'll lay my head against my elbow and the window

Watch the wheels go,
Watch the wheels go,

Roll on, Roll on oh little train
Brakeman blow your whistle, throw your weight upon the chain
Make way, for whatever will be, will be
Between the Sandman, the Brakeman, and me.

And the Sandman's waiting to deliver me my dream, deliver me my dream, deliver me my dream,
Today

Guess I'll lay my head against my elbow and the window
Let my wheels go, let my wheels go

(background)Let my wheels go

Roll on roll, on oh little train
Brakeman blow your whistle
Throw your weight upon the chain.

Now make way,
Whatever will be, will be,
For the sandman, the brakeman, and me.

Roll on, roll on oh little train,
Brakeman blow your whistle,
Throw your weight upon the chain

Oh make way, whatever will be, will be
for the sandman, the brakeman and me.
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"Well, I climbed back on that eagle, took one last look around
Through red tail lights a shadow moved slow across the ground
And off somewhere a midnight train is slowly passing by
I could hear that whistle moaning
I'm so lonesome I could cry"

Alan Jackson, Midnight in Montgomery.

I was in Montgomery at about 3am, had that song playing in my head when a train passed by... Creepy.
 
Trains and Cops by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb rules

"I live down by the railroad tracks
one of these days, I wanna hop on board a train rolling down the line
I wont care where it takes me
as long as I'm moving fast
Call it easy riding, call it hard traveling; I wont mind
and I don't quite care where I'm going

It can take me east or west I don't care
By that time ill be glad to be most anywhere
Don't that sound quite alright by me
and I don't quite care where I'm going"
 
"I don't mind not knowing what lies down the track
Cause I'm Looking out ahead, to keep my mind from turning back

It's not the first time I've found myself alone and known
If I really had you once, then I'd have you when I'm gone
Whistle blows, blowin' lonesome in my mind
Calling me along that never ending metal line

Steel rails, chasing sunshine round the bend
Winding through the trees, like a ribbon in the wind
I don't mind not knowing what lies down the track
Cause I'm Looking out ahead, to keep my mind from turning back"

--Steel Rails, Alison Krauss.


"Listen to rhythm of the wheels go 'round.
Hypnotic sound of the driver, on this old train.
I'd like to be in Tennessee,
but they don't want me.
I'm an outcast.
This train's my home.

I just caught the 904, don't know where she's headin' for, or been. If I don't get caught by a railroad guard, i'll sleep
tonight in a lumber yard in the next old town she pulls in."
--Rythm of the Wheels by Rhonda Vincent
 
Of course:

"Some men are searchin for the Holy Grail,
but there ain't nothin sweeter than ridin the rails."

Tom Waits - Cold Water
 
"now if i found god anywhere hed be down by the tracks
facedown in a boxcar with a 40 in both hands
and when i find him there were gonna sit and roll some top
cause hell be just as confused as anyone else on this rock"

johnny hobo and the freight trains....great song..
 
song written by a friend
agro red from n.y.c.

"Im head south bound to california
im leav'n portland
black tar behind
im head south bound to california
and as long as im on a train i will be fine.

its been a long time since new york now
dirty smoke and smog arise
its been a long time since new york now
and somehow i made it over here alive!"
 
You know I never could fall asleep on a train
All the time dreaming about moving away
Finally awake, I wonder
What if I pulled the emergency brake...?
Doors are still open and I wish they would shut
Then I could stop thinking 'should I jump and run?'
Only on page ten
And I think I gotta start all over again

When the tape slows down it means the battery's dead
May your songs never get stuck out of my head
If I ever fall aleep I remember my dream
Where everybody's there and noody leaves
Where everybody's there and noody leaves

Something below me starts cranking to life
The platform moves backwards until its out of sight
Tracks start to split
Got another ten hours till myh next cigarette
Biked round the city about a billion times
And a few seconds left until I leave it behind
Almost at the end
I close my eyesa nd we fall over the edge

When the tape slows down it means the battery's dead
May your songs never get stuck out of my head
If I ever fall aleep I remember my dream
Where everybody's there and noody leaves
Where everybody's there and noody leaves

Departure Arrival- Mischief Brew
 
"Its been a long and lonesome road,
I'm so far from my own home,
just don't care where I lay at night.
This jug of wine keeps me warm inside,
holdin' me out for the rest of the ride,
on this dark and stormy night,
I'm sleepin on cold steel tonight,
ridin' that 48 takin' me far away"
-2nd St Rag Stompers (I think they wrote it at least)
 
ya i go everywhere, dont pay no fare
i can ride that freight train just any ole where
if i win or lose i never ever have them blues
because im ragged and i just dont care
-The Inkwell Rhythm Makers
 
"I got a flask inside my pocket, we can share it on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening by the morning seems insane"
 
"In the eyes of the law well my whole life is illegal, how i eat, where i sleep, even the way i travel" and "sittin on my front porch and by my front porch i mean grainer deck and i know if the police catch me they're gonna wanna ring my neck."
Travelin broke & fuck off pig by Squalor
 
" Well I can hear the whistle from a mile away,
and it sounds so good, but I must stay away,
That train is a beauty, makin' everybody stare,
but it's only destination is the middle of nowhere..."
long black train- josh turner
 
Elizabeth Cotten:

Freight train, Freight train, run so fast
Freight train, Freight train, run so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on
They won't know what route I've gone

When I am dead and in my grave
No more good times here I crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
Tell them all that I've gone to sleep.

When I die, Lord, bury me deep
Way down on old Chestnut street
Then I can hear old Number 9
As she comes rolling by.
 
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