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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.

*New verses by Charlie Ipcar, 2/8/2025