Train Songs

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 04:31 PM

Lee? Is that Hank Snow song the same as the one written by Garnet Rogers on his album Small Victories?

"He said I love the sound I even love the smell
God damn the bastards all to hell
How dare they say the railroad won't pay?"

Ian Tamblyn has a good train song, also about the demise of the Canadian rail called "Railroad".. but I don't know what album it's on...

"There's a train standing in the station
The conductor is calling all aboard
There's only one thing wrong, once this train is gone
It won't be back no more..."

Tony Kaduck's "Railway Tune" has got to be one of my favorites... you can find it, if ya don't know it already, covered by James Keelaghan on his album Timelines... I laugh every time I play it...

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Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: GUEST,Lee
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 04:05 PM

Among my favorites:

"One More Ride", Hank Snow.

"Glory Land Express", Orville Prophet.

"Atlantic Coastal Line", Charley Pride.

"Waiting for a Train", Jimmie Rodgers.

Lee

P.S. I was Country when Country Wasn't Cool!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Ely
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 03:18 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwho.....)
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 02:43 PM

I would strongly recommend Utah Phillips CD "Good Though"

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: GUEST,Bob Schwarer
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 02:20 PM

Wreck of the FFV.

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: GUEST,marcelloblues
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 01:24 PM

It was a train, (that) took me away from here, but a train, can't bring me home. Tom Waits (FRANK'S WILD YEARS, maybe)

cheers

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 12:07 PM

Blue Train--Marty Stuart
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (obviously!)--Arlo Guthrie
SHADES OF GLORIA--Maura O'Connell
Train Kept A-Rollin'--Aerosmith (sorry, I had to include it!)
Engine of Love--Earl Jordan
SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN'--originally Howlin' Wolf, but I like the Yardbirds live version better


--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: karen k
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 06:31 AM

Dave Goulder, a wonderful singer and dry stonewall builder from Rosehall, Scotland, way up in the Highlands, has a great album of all railroad songs. Can't think of the name of it right now, but will try to come up with it and post it later. If you can find this one it's a gem.

karen

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: GUEST,ej
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 05:55 AM

How about "LAST TRAIN TO SAN FERNANDO"? From the 50's or 60's. Does anyone have the words to this?

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Stewie
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 02:21 AM

I have recently posted the lyrics to 17 train related songs, many of them relatively recent.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Dale Rose
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 01:06 AM

Then THERE are tons . . . (It's late)

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Dale Rose
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 01:04 AM

As Sorcha says, it depends on your definition of recent. I'd say a bunch of stuff by Utah Phillips and Gordon Lightfoot could be considered instant classics. Then are tons of old railroad songs that are rarely done.

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From:
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 12:44 AM

Chatanooga Choo-choo

In Cape Breton's Summertimre Revue, there was also a song (I think) called They Took the Train Away

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From:
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 12:40 AM

Steel Rail Blues

Stan Rogers - Guysborough Train (recently resurrected on the new CD)

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 12:37 AM

Harold, I think you need to check a little deeper in at the DT too. Did you know you can browse by keywords? Entering @ train in the searchbox got over 80 hits.... not all of them gems of course or only slightly rail related, but there are at least 30+ good railroad songs about wrecks and hobos and related stuff. Kendall Morse does a great rendition of "PHOEBE SNOW" by Utah Phillips and it's in there...a kind of hobo song. If I had the time to learn it, I'd sing it next week.

There are also a couple of Woody's like "EAST TEXAS RED"..a great "don't get mad get even" song, and "HOBO'S LULLABY" which aren't in the DT.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 12:08 AM

Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail is being reprinted as we speak, he tells me. Get it. Support academic folklore studies -- labors of love by good people! (Shall we make up a bumper sticker of that phrase, Kat?)

Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 11:44 PM

How recent is "recent"?

Subject: RE: BS: Train Songs
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 11:33 PM

Man o man, Harold, have YOU opened a can of worms! I'll get back to you tommorow on all the ones I can come up with! Right now I'll just say "East Tennessee" by Jim Croce is VERY VERY good!

--Mbo

Subject: Train Songs
From: Harold W
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 11:27 PM

I know that there are old standard train songs on the Mudcat, such as WABASH CANNONBALL, CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO, etc. C. W. Mcall wrote a couple of songs about trains in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado (The Silverton, Galloping Goose). Is there any other recent train songs?

Ken Johnson