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Thread #173874 Message #4216901
Posted By: Charley Noble
08-Feb-25 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: This Train is Bound for Glory (New Verse)
Subject: ADD: This Train is Bound for Glory (New Verse)
"This Train" was originally an African-American revival song. Woody Guthrie added a few verses in the 1940s, and other people have been adding them since. Here are a couple of original verses , plus a few new ones that seem to resonate with our times. There is room for more if you'd like to contribute:
This Train Is Bound for Glory-2025
This train is bound for glory, this train; This train is bound for glory, this train; This train is bound for glory, Don't ride nothin' but the righteous an' the holy; This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train don't carry no gamblers, this train; This train don't carry no gamblers, this train; This train don't carry no gamblers, No hypocrites, no midnight ramblers; This train is bound for glory, this train.
*This train don't carry no oligarchs, this train; This train don't carry no oligarchs, this train; This train don't carry no oligarchs, No Silicon Valley upstarts or cryptocurrency monarchs; This train is bound for glory, this train.
*This train don't carry no White Supremacists, this train; This train don't carry no White Supremacists, this train This train don't carry no White Supremacists, No Proud Boys, Oath Takers, or other Trump Fascists; This train is bound for glory, this train.
*This train don't carry no ICE brass, this train; This train don't carry no ICE brass, this train; This train don't carry no ICE brass; Asylum seekers will go first class; This train is bound for glory, this train.