Lyr Add: This Train is Bound for Glory (New Verse)

Subject: ADD: This Train is Bound for Glory (New Verse)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 05:18 PM

"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

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: This Train is Boubd for Glory (New Verse
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 05:20 PM

Be nice if some nice Joe-clone would fix typo "Boubd" which should are "Bound" :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: This Train is Bound for Glory (New Verse)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 08:25 PM

Thanks for the typo fix!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: This Train is Bound for Glory (New Verse)
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 11 Feb 25 - 01:50 PM

I was once on a train from London Victoria when a bunch of buskers struck up and sang:

This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, calling at
Gatwick Airport
Haywards Heath
Burgess Hill
Hassocks
Preston Park and
Brighton
This train is bound for glory, this train

LFF