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Lyr Req: People Get Ready (Curtis Mayfield)

28 Feb 98 - 10:03 PM (#22590)
Subject: Train a' Coming
From: NancyO

... there's a train a'coming, it's picking up passengers one by one..

I believe this is an old-time Black blues gospel??

I would love to find the lyrics and where I could get a cd by the singer.

Thanks,

NancyO

28 Feb 98 - 11:35 PM (#22597)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Barry Finn

People Get Ready, Chamber brothers. Barry

01 Mar 98 - 01:50 AM (#22603)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Joe Offer

Here is a link to the lyrics, Nancy. They're at the International Lyrics Server, which attributes the song to Rod Stewart and Human Nature. You're better off believing Barry, I think.
-Joe Offer-

01 Mar 98 - 09:48 AM (#22614)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Barry Finn

Joe, that was Al Stewart you sent us to, I should've said, I don't know who the words are by, but the Chamber Brothers had a big hit with it back in the 60's.

01 Mar 98 - 04:57 PM (#22643)
Subject: Lyr Add: PEOPLE GET READY (from Human Nature)
From: alison

Hi,

Followed Joe's link to Al Stewart then did a search, so here is Human Nature's version.

Human Nature
Telling Everybody

People Get Ready

People get ready
There's a train a-comin'
you don't need no baggage
Just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesel hummin'
You don't need no ticket
Just thank the Lord

People Get ready
For the train to Jordan
It's pickin' up passengers
From coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board on
There's room for all
Amongst who loves the most

Just as an aside, who did (I can only remember the chorus) "Fe-fi-fo-fum look out baby 'cause here I come, And I'm gonna ? make love to you so get ready - get ready, And I'm gonna make you love me too so get ready - get ready Here I come. (Get ready 'cause here I come)."

Was that the Chambers Brothers??

Slainte

Alison

01 Mar 98 - 05:09 PM (#22645)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Barry Finn

Alison, yup, that's the Chamber(s?) Brothers, they were a late 60's, R&B group, had another hit called "Time" & "Going Uptown To Harlem". Don't remember much else, sorry. Barry

01 Mar 98 - 10:21 PM (#22690)
Subject: People Get Ready
From: Joe Offer

Oh....Al Stewart. Well, DUH. Who he? I think the version I remember is the one by the Chambers Brothers. It's a great song, whoever sang it. It's easy to put some nice, rich harmony in it.
-Joe Offer-

02 Mar 98 - 10:48 AM (#22730)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Earl

It was written by Curtis Mayfield.

02 Mar 98 - 01:00 PM (#22746)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Jaxon

It may seem hard to believe now but the Chambers Brithers played at Newport and were featured a number of times at Club 47 (now Passim) in Cambridge. Eric von Schmidt and Jim Rooney wrote a history of folk in Cambridge/Boston called "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" that talks about them. I saw them play at 47 and don't think I could hear anything for a few days. They were great!

Jaxon

02 Mar 98 - 10:44 PM (#22791)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: belter

I think this may be related to a country gospel song done by Roy Acuf. The title may have been Last Train To Glory, or Gospel Train.

02 Mar 98 - 11:31 PM (#22795)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Jerry Friedman

Al Stewart had a couple intelligent-person's-mellow-rock hits in the late '70s: "Time Passages" and "The Year of the Cat".

03 Mar 98 - 01:55 PM (#22831)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Earl

Originally recorded by the Impressions, the lyrics are here.

03 Mar 98 - 03:04 PM (#22837)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Will

The Chamber's Brothers version of People get Ready was great. The song also works really well as an a capella medley with "This train don't carry no gamblers".

03 Mar 98 - 05:49 PM (#22846)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: gpitts

question for belter do you know the Roy Acuff tune :"Freight Train Blues" if you do do you have the lyrics it was also on Bob Dylans first LP.

03 Mar 98 - 06:06 PM (#22847)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: alison

Hi,

Anyone got the lyrics to the Chamber's brother's one?

Slainte

Alison

03 Mar 98 - 09:02 PM (#22879)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Will

Alas, I once had the Chambers Brothers vinyl, but it got lost in a house shuffle.

03 Mar 98 - 09:15 PM (#22882)
Subject: Lye Add: PEOPLE GET READY (Curtis Mayfield)^^^
From: dick greenhaus

People Get Ready

Curtis Mayfield

People get ready There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket
You just thank the Lord

People get ready
For the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers
From coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's room for all
among the loved the most

There ain't no room
for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just
To save his own
Have pity on those
whose chances are thinner
Cause there's no hiding place
From the Kingdom's Throne

So people get ready
for the train a-comin'
You don't need no baggage
you just get on board !
All you need is faith
to hear the diesels hummin
Don't need no ticket
you just thank, you just thank the Lord

Yeah
Ooh

Yeah
Ooh

I'm getting ready
I'm getting ready
this time I'm ready
this time I'm ready

03 Mar 98 - 11:52 PM (#22893)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Earl

Looks like the same song to me.

04 Mar 98 - 04:05 PM (#22972)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Will

Thanks, Dick. That's as close to what I remember the Chambers Brothers singing as my memory will allow, and much closer than the bits and pieces I have been singing to the kids for the last ten years.

30 Aug 98 - 03:15 PM (#36465)
Subject: TRAIN< TRAIN
From: bmwkt@blomand.net

DOes anyone know the history of Train, Train performed by Blackfoot.?? It sounds as if it could be blues and not just considered southern rock. I need some serious help on this question. Thanks for your time! Katy

14 Feb 99 - 02:06 PM (#58555)
Subject: Need song title for lyrics
From:

I am looking for the name of a songut particularly for those that might be used in a school program for K-3song "People Get Ready." I know Rod Stewart, Curtis Mayfield and Phil Collins (orshmid sun instead. Thanks link.net

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14 Feb 99 - 11:04 PM (#58628)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Barry Finn

Refresh. Barry

14 Feb 99 - 11:05 PM (#58629)
Subject: RE: Need song title for lyrics
From: Barry Finn

See thread titled "Train a' Coming. Barry

15 Feb 99 - 12:28 AM (#58638)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Lonesome EJ

Alison....I am pretty sure "Get Ready Cause Here I Come" was a Temptations song,at least they had the hit with it.Later it was re-done by Rare Earth in a more rocked up version.

31 May 99 - 10:40 AM (#83016)
Subject: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: Paul G.

I think the name of this Gospel style tune is "People Get Ready" at least that's the first line. "...there's a train a coming..." Anybody got yhe rest?

Thanks! Paul

31 May 99 - 11:20 AM (#83021)
Subject: Lyr Add: PEOPLE GET READY (Curtis Mayfield)
From: Jeri

From TC's Song Lyrics Archive at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~inferno/sla.html

People Get Ready
Curtis Mayfield

People get ready

There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket
You just thank the Lord

People get ready
For the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers
From coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's room for all
among the loved the most

There ain't no room
for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just
To save his own
Have pity on those
whose chances are thinner
Cause there's no hiding place
From the Kingdom's Throne

So people get ready
for the train a-comin'
You don't need no baggage
you just get on board !
All you need is faith
to hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket
you just thank, you just thank the Lord

Yeah
Ooh

I'm getting ready
I'm getting ready
this time I'm ready
this time I'm ready
©
^^

31 May 99 - 02:58 PM (#83035)
Subject: RE: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: ali_hil

Sorry, Im lost I wanna find an Aerosmith lyrics.Can you help me?

Hi - this is a folk music site, so we don't have anything from Aerosmith. The lyrics site mentioned above has some Aerosmith stuff. Click here to get direct to their Aerosmith files. The International Lyrics Server used to be the best place for rock lyrics, but it was shut down and hasn't come back online yet - they're due to come back soon.
-Joe Offer-

31 May 99 - 04:20 PM (#83039)
Subject: RE: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: Barry Finn

There were a few threads on People Get Ready a while back, give the forum a search. Barry

31 May 99 - 04:31 PM (#83041)
Subject: RE: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: Roger in Baltimore

Ali-hil,

Yes, perhaps you are a bit lost. Not many lyrics to modern rock and roll at this site. You might try theOn-Line Guitar Archive. They do a pretty good job.

If you are looking for one of their Top-40 hits, you can try Lyrics World. They cover lyrics for Top-40 music from 1930 to 1998.

Good luck in your search.

Roger in Baltimore

31 May 99 - 04:43 PM (#83044)
Subject: RE: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: Paul G.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Jeri and Barry!

Paul

31 May 99 - 08:48 PM (#83080)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE FACTORY (Bruce Springsteen)
From: Jeri

If I wasn't familiar with Curtis Mayfield and heard a gospel choir perform this gospel song, I might have thought it was "folk" too!

Ironic anecdote alert. I was living in England from '79 to '81 and used to listen to Jim Lloyd's "Folk on II." He once introduced a song by saying "now, here's (name of group) with an American work song." They started to sing acapella:

Early in the morning factory whistle blows,
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,
It's the working, the working, just the working life.

Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
The working, the working, just the working life.

End of the day, factory whistle cries,
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy,
somebody's gonna get hurt tonight,
It's the working, the working, just the working life.

The Factory, by Bruce Springsteen (It sounded good acapella)

31 May 99 - 09:33 PM (#83086)
Subject: RE: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: Paul G.

As I recall, Springstein won the best contemporaty Folk song grammy a year or two ago...Also, Kenny Rankin recorded a version of People Get Ready about 15 years ago that was pretty folky. I'm looking to work some gospel-style songs into my mix for performing. I like the genre, and find many gospel tunes lend themselves to acoustic instrumentation...I'd welcome any additional song suggestions!

Best to all.

31 May 99 - 09:57 PM (#83096)
Subject: RE: Lyrics, please: 'People Get Ready'
From: Barry Finn

The Chambers Brothers did this in a gospel sort of style back in the late 60's & they did it quite well. I think the LP was titled Going Uptown To Harlem. Thanks Jeri, always thought it to be a gospel number till now. Barry

02 Oct 01 - 09:35 PM (#563874)
Subject: RE: Train a' Coming
From: Joe Offer

Max played a Sonny Terry recording of this song on Mudcat Radio today - the tune was quite different from the Chambers Brothers recording I'm used to. Dick says Curtis Mayfield wrote it. When was the song written?
Lyrics World says Mayfield copyrighted it in 1964 - but the Sonny Terry version Max played is so different, it may be from a different source.
-Joe Offer-

Here's a post that got lost - not sure how I came across it.

Thread #9122 Message #58547

Posted By:

14-Feb-99

Thread Name:

Subject: Performers of "People Get Ready"

I'm looking for a list of performers who've recorded or made a regular part of their repertoire the gospel song "People Get Ready." I know Rod Stewart, Curtis Mayfield and Phil Collins (orshmid sun instead. Thanks link.net

02 Oct 01 - 10:21 PM (#563908)
Subject: RE: People Get Ready - Train a' Coming
From: Steve Latimer

I know that Jeff Beck did a wonderful version with Rod Stewart singing. It was kind of a reunion thing for them in the eighties. Jeff credits Curtis Mayfield, but I wouldn't be surprised if it pre-dates him.

Great song.

03 Oct 01 - 03:37 AM (#564033)
Subject: RE: People Get Ready - Train a' Coming
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

I'm relying on my unreliable memory but UK's Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band did a version too which I think was on his Battersea Rain Dance LP, around 1970.
RtS

03 Oct 01 - 09:39 AM (#564158)
Subject: RE: People Get Ready - Train a' Coming
From: GUEST,Mick O'Gorman

I bought a copy of Eva Cassidy's compilation CD for her spine tingling version of Sting's 'Fields of Gold'. People Get Ready is one of the tracks recorderd on that CD. I dont have th CD in work with me, but I will get catalogue number, etc, and post it as soon as I can.