The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20196   Message #209280
Posted By: Ely
09-Apr-00 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: Train Songs
Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
Georgia Railroad [instrumental];
Crossing Number Nine;
Bringing in the Georgia Mail;
Slow Train Through Georgia;
Last Train from Poor Valley;
Southern Railroad Blues;
Railroad Days;
Weathered Old Caboose behind the Train [the one about the Canadian railroad];
Dixie Flyer Blues--Norman Blake

The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore--Jean Ritchie

Starlight on the Rails--Utah Philips

Morningtown Ride--Malvina Reynolds

Rock Island Line;
Midnight Special--Leadbelly

Freight Train--Elizabeth Cotten

Five Hundred Miles--Hedy West

Nine Hundred Miles--[recorded by] Cisco Houston

Railroading on the Great Divide--Sara Carter

Freight Train Blues--Roy Acuff

Larry Penn also loves train songs; I saw him at a small concert in Houston a few years ago and he always does "Wabash Cannonball" and the poem about the railroad spike and things.