Long Train Running - Train Songs

[BarbaPanagos]

This is one of my favorite songs, leastening to it I recall some mid '80s hot summer nights at the "Surf Club", Perissa beach, Santorini

Doobie Brothers- Long train running

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnD0eVdHJfI

Down around the corner
A half a mile from here
You see them old trains runnin'
And you watch them disappear
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love
You know I saw Miss Lucy
Down along the tracks
She lost her home and her family
And she won't be comin' back
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love

Well the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central Freight
Gotta keep on pushin' Mama
'Cause you know they're runnin' late
Without love
Where would you be now - now, now, now
Without love

Where pistons keep on churnin'
And the wheels go 'round and 'round
And the steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without love
Where would you be right now
Without love
Where would you be now

[BarbaPanagos]

train seems to be a very popular among songs and music composers

Duke Ellington - Across the Track Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZsP-8ZP94


2:19 Blues : Louis Armstrong et Sidney Béchet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1HF8GR_tk

the two nineteenth took my babe away
the two nineteenth train took my babe away
the two seventeenth will bring her back someday.

she was standin' in the corner with her feet soakin' wet
she was standin' in the corner with her feet soakin' wet
she was beggin' each every man that she met

she said give me one dollar, or just one thin dime
she said give me a dollar, or one thin dime
'cause I had to feed that ugly man of mine

[christo]

Here is a CD from OSE with Greek train songs. Not for sale and still in its plastic sleeve, but I could make an exception.

christo.

[BarbaPanagos]

and now, this is my Chrismas present for you all

Freight Train Boogie

Casey Jones he was a mighty man
But now he's resting in the promised land
The kind of music he could understand
Was an eight wheel driver under his command

He made the freight train boogie
All the time
He made the freight train boogie
As he rolled down the line

When the fireman started ringing the bell
Everybody on the line could tell
Casey Jones was a coming to town,
On an 8-wheel driver that was burning 'em down

it seems to be an American traditional song, one of the first releases was by the Delmore Brothers, but it seems to be quite popular and sung by other artists too

The Delmore Brothers - Freight Train Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbHtW4wX1zU

Freight Train Boogie - Red Foley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpzOBvlS4cU

The Rockin' 8 Balls - Freight Train Boogie , look at these retired Rockers!!!! I like their looks and sound really great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA2_irnuEEY

and a youtube video of interesting photos with this song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hPcO4pYxlo


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[BarbaPanagos]

this is interesting Christo, is there the songs list on the back sleeve?


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[christo]

Here is the back. But what about this one? Lovely voices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodFf_0BD34

christo.

[BarbaPanagos]

thanks Christo, the song is not bad but I prefer this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhTU_FksdGE

it's been already 20 years since we first heard it!!!

Όταν θα 'ρθείς να με ξεθάψεις απ' τις στάχτες
και διώξεις από πάνω μου όλη τη σκουριά
και ξαναβάλεις τις ρόδες μου σε ράγες
και εγώ αρχίσω να κυλάω ξανά

Τότε οι λύπες θα με ψάχνουν
και άνεργες θα θρηνούν
Θα πέφτουν μανιασμένες οι βροχές
και θα ρωτούν

Τι έγινε εκείνο το τρένο που έβλεπε
τα άλλα τρένα να περνούν .

[John Edge]

Hi All,
Not Greek I'm afraid but railway oriented - my all time favourite group, the English progressive rock band, Jethro Tull;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r61I5kGX7ik
Playing "Locomotive Breath", I.Anderson 1971.

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible --
Open at page one --
God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.

[BarbaPanagos]

you're right John! I had forgotten this one! great song from a great band!
it was at the play list of the Rock clubs back at the early 80s


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