TRAIN SONGS
Wreck of the ol 97
Indian Pacific
Loosin my blues tonight (has with ref to 38 class)Slim Dusty
Midnight special
Hobo Bills last ride (box car willy)
All good stuff Bill...!
Bills_Billboards wrote:
Morning town ride ( the original Seekers)
I'll pay that too...
Bills_Billboards wrote:
Morning train (Sheena Easten)
Bill
Oh, Bill, now you've gone and spoilt it all by mentioning that one...................
Sorry for that what was i thinking ... slaps self several times
TheLoadedDogEl Sombrero!Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Last Visited: Jan 7, 2009 Location: At the pub with 42101
There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town
But no local yokel gonna shut me down
'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound
And we've come a thousand miles from a Guitar Town.
(snip)
Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault
I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop
Stumble in the restaurant wonderin' why I don't stop
Gotta keep rockin' while I still can
I gotta two pack habit and a motel tan
But when my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man
With my back to the riser I make my stand.
Humphrey! We're leaving!
Katie CabooseStation MasterJoined: Jan 28, 2006 Last Visited: Dec 21, 2008 Location: near Rosstown railway- long wait between trains
I'm pretty sure that the seductively titled album "Great trucking Songs of the Renaissance" contains no actual trucking songs, but I could be mistaken.
Train songs plucked from back-catalogue of JJJ hottest 100 albums:
My baby thinks she's a train- Triffids
Cattle & Cane- Go Betweens
Last Train- Christine Anu & Paul Kelly
Down in the Tube Station- the Jam
Runaway train- Soul Asylum
also, DownTown train- Tom Waits
& White Room- some famous 70s band or other...
JTCs2Train ControllerJoined: Oct 09, 2004 Last Visited: Jan 3, 2009 Location: Out walking the cat
slim was the legend but there is a new guy on the aussie truck song scene
Travis sinclair has 2 albums with songs such as
dream machine
eating up bitumin
glory bound (about a race up the hume, roll on truck haters but great song)
carry the country
midnight run
50 tons on your back (funny)
and many more
JT
CAT 793 in the wet- worlds most effective laxative.
No fear eh? u aint driven a haul truck in the rain have ya?
TheLoadedDogEl Sombrero!Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Last Visited: Jan 7, 2009 Location: At the pub with 42101
Me thinks you'll find Cream had broken up by 1969.
Dave Malcolm
DRIVER, PN CMD
Kav442s5Chief Train ControllerJoined: Jan 01, 2006 Last Visited: Jan 7, 2009 Location: Either I'm near the 160km peg on the Short North, or 'up the Creek'
Casey Chambers did a song 'Freight Train', hard to find, I have it here, but it would be a cover though. Any idea who did it originally?
'Wish I was a freight train baby, wish I was a diesel locomotive, I'd come whistling down your tracks, crashing in your door...'
Doobie Brothers 'Long Train Running' I've been known to sing it a few times in a p**sed out state in karaoke hahaha!!!
Metallica 'No Leaf Clover' and 'Better than you' both mention trains, and also, as of today, AC/DC have released 'Rock N Roll Train' although the words to this one seems to relate to someone who takes drugs, while wer'e at it, there was Soul Asylum 'Runaway Train' ages ago, about runaway kids. I still think the video of that song should have had multiple tracks filmed from a moving train transposed onto the guitar neck during the middle of it.....Stupid lyrics anyway....
It's creepy crawly season, so stop those creepys from crawling, ESPECIALLY if its a TERMITE!!!!!!!!!
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TheLoadedDogEl Sombrero!Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Last Visited: Jan 7, 2009 Location: At the pub with 42101
... and don't forget that the convoy famously included:
Eleven long-haired
Friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse micro-bus...!
I am negligent in letting this post pass.
I have to add my vote as that being one of the funniest pieces of C&W/truck song lyric writing there ever has been.
It's up there with the timeless classic "Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life" and the hauntingly beautiful "Prop me up beside the jukebox when I die. Put some quarters in mah hand..."
Humphrey! We're leaving!
David PetersMinister for RailwaysJoined: Nov 29, 2005 Last Visited: Jan 7, 2009 Location: In a black Trans Am!
Here's a mouldy goldy oldie preceding a hit bound for you, The Monkees "Last train to Clarksville"!
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qr3900Deputy CommissionerJoined: Dec 17, 2004 Last Visited: Jan 6, 2009 Location: Waiting for a Maryborough bound ICE service at Southport!
"Barricades and Brick walls won't keep me from you,
you can tie me down on the railroad track and let that freight train loose
Iron bars and big old cars won't run me out of town
you can knock me down if I'm not your man, before the sun goes down
Train by Leo Sayer:
Train, Oh train, take me back, again.
I remember, I remember, take me baaaaaaaaaack!
and another good one is Long Train Running by the Doobie Brothers
Thanks
Jamie
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ghostlocohunterStation MasterJoined: Mar 05, 2008 Last Visited: Jan 5, 2009 Location: On A Farm
No mention of Elvis' Mystery Train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5lznvz9iE. There are a million cover versions around but I particularly recommend those of Robbie Robertson and The Band, and Dwight Yoakham.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
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