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Zamracene749
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Here are some rather mournful and tragic songs mentioning trains
Ocean colour Scene- The day we caught the train
"Step into the sky in the star bright
Feeling it's a brighter day
You and I should ride the coast
And wind up in our favorite coats just miles away
Roll a number, write another song
Like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train"
Don Williams- American Pie
"And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died"
Stereophonics- Local boy in the photograph
"Clocks go back railway track
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time
A pebble beach, we're underneath a pier, just been painted red
Where I hear the news for the first time
And all the friends lay down the flowers
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last
Local boy in the photograph
He'll always be twenty three
Yet the train runs on and on
Past the place they found his clothing
There's no mistake
I smell that smell
It's that time of year again
I can taste the air
The clocks go back railway track
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time"
Emmylou Harris- Tulsa Queen
"I heard the train
In the Tulsa night
Calling out my name
Looking for a fight
She's come a long, long way
Got a longer way to go
So tell me how a train from Tulsa
Has got a right to know
She sings a song
So sad and high
And the Tulsa queen
Don't ever lie
And she don't care where she goes
Don't care where she's been
And the Tulsa queen ain't crying
'Cause I won't see you again
And I want to ride
Like a Tulsa queen
The Tulsa queen and you
Are gone..."
Kenny Rogers - the gambler
"On a warm summer's eve
On a train bound for nowhere
I met up with the gambler
We were both too tired to sleep"
Slim Whitman- Birmingham Jail (Famously sung in the jail evening scene during the hilarious film Stir Crazy)
"Angels in Heaven
Know I love you
Down in the valley
The valley so low
Late in the evenin'
Hear the train blow
Hear the train blow, love
Hear the train blow
Late in the evenin'
Hear the train blow"
Ocean colour Scene- The day we caught the train
"Step into the sky in the star bright
Feeling it's a brighter day
You and I should ride the coast
And wind up in our favorite coats just miles away
Roll a number, write another song
Like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train"
Don Williams- American Pie
"And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died"
Stereophonics- Local boy in the photograph
"Clocks go back railway track
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time
A pebble beach, we're underneath a pier, just been painted red
Where I hear the news for the first time
And all the friends lay down the flowers
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last
Local boy in the photograph
He'll always be twenty three
Yet the train runs on and on
Past the place they found his clothing
There's no mistake
I smell that smell
It's that time of year again
I can taste the air
The clocks go back railway track
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time"
Emmylou Harris- Tulsa Queen
"I heard the train
In the Tulsa night
Calling out my name
Looking for a fight
She's come a long, long way
Got a longer way to go
So tell me how a train from Tulsa
Has got a right to know
She sings a song
So sad and high
And the Tulsa queen
Don't ever lie
And she don't care where she goes
Don't care where she's been
And the Tulsa queen ain't crying
'Cause I won't see you again
And I want to ride
Like a Tulsa queen
The Tulsa queen and you
Are gone..."
Kenny Rogers - the gambler
"On a warm summer's eve
On a train bound for nowhere
I met up with the gambler
We were both too tired to sleep"
Slim Whitman- Birmingham Jail (Famously sung in the jail evening scene during the hilarious film Stir Crazy)
"Angels in Heaven
Know I love you
Down in the valley
The valley so low
Late in the evenin'
Hear the train blow
Hear the train blow, love
Hear the train blow
Late in the evenin'
Hear the train blow"
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GatwickDepress
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Australian hip hop group Hilltop Hoods has Stopping All Stations, which begins with a automated station announcement: "the next train to Adelaide will depart from platform one, stopping all stations". The lyrics deal with an old man riding the train, only to be stabbed defending a fellow passenger in a robbery gone wrong for the sake of a handful of dollars. There's also a version with a 'happier' ending where the old man confronts the thief instead.
C. W. McCall of Convoy fame also has The Silverton about the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge railway in Colorado.
C. W. McCall of Convoy fame also has The Silverton about the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge railway in Colorado.
Poolie
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The Last of the Steam Powered Trains - The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society
One of my favourites Stop This Train - Kevin Ayres
One of my favourites Stop This Train - Kevin Ayres
From John Mayall (RIP):
So Many Roads, so many trains to ride.....
i was standing at the station when I heard that whistle blow, I thought it was the Streamliner but it was the B & O...
.....it was a mean old fireman and a cruel cruel engineer
mentioned up thread: Ridin on the L & N see also : nine below zero / Dr Feelgood
and: Life is just a slow train crawling up a hill.
So Many Roads, so many trains to ride.....
i was standing at the station when I heard that whistle blow, I thought it was the Streamliner but it was the B & O...
.....it was a mean old fireman and a cruel cruel engineer
mentioned up thread: Ridin on the L & N see also : nine below zero / Dr Feelgood
and: Life is just a slow train crawling up a hill.
Weary Walker
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Ashley Hutchings: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Ralph McTell: Last Train and Ride
Ralph McTell: Last Train and Ride
DarloRich
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Deltics - Chris Rea (must have changed at Darlo and got the chugger from there to the Boro 
)
Saturday night's all right for fighting - Elton John getting as oiled as a diesel train
Johnny Cash - Folsome Prison Blues:
I hear the train a comin’, it’s rolling ’round the bend
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin’ on
But that train keeps a rollin’ on down to San Antone
Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line:
Down the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line it's the road to ride
Rock Island Line it's a mighty good road
Well if you ride it you got to ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line
) Saturday night's all right for fighting - Elton John getting as oiled as a diesel train
Johnny Cash - Folsome Prison Blues:
I hear the train a comin’, it’s rolling ’round the bend
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin’ on
But that train keeps a rollin’ on down to San Antone
Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line:
Down the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line it's the road to ride
Rock Island Line it's a mighty good road
Well if you ride it you got to ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line
Beaten to It!
A karaoke special!
Damn. Was hoping that would be a trump card!
matchmaker
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"Under your thunb" by Godley & Creme.
I was standing in the station
being pounded by the rain
so I chose the last compartment
of a stationary train
I felt someone get in behind me
but I never caught their eye
but I thought I heard I heard a woman''s voice
whispering goodbye
So I lay down in the darkness
with the beer and coffee stains
and I stared out at the thunder
through the broken window panes
And although the storm was booming
like an engine in the sky
I''m sure I heard a woman''s voice cry
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
So I rolled myself a cigarette
and smoked it on my own
but it didn''t stop the whispers
or the smell of her cologne
Then she rose up out of nowhere
and her hair was full of steam
and she stuck her head out the window
and screamed and screamed, she screamed!
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
So I picked up an old newspaper to read
and I noticed something very strange indeed
So I looked a little closer
and it chilled me to the bone
"Woman throws herself from speeding train,
identity unknown"
But I recognized the picture of the woman who was dead
and underneath the picture it said
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
I was standing in the station
being pounded by the rain
so I chose the last compartment
of a stationary train
I felt someone get in behind me
but I never caught their eye
but I thought I heard I heard a woman''s voice
whispering goodbye
So I lay down in the darkness
with the beer and coffee stains
and I stared out at the thunder
through the broken window panes
And although the storm was booming
like an engine in the sky
I''m sure I heard a woman''s voice cry
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
So I rolled myself a cigarette
and smoked it on my own
but it didn''t stop the whispers
or the smell of her cologne
Then she rose up out of nowhere
and her hair was full of steam
and she stuck her head out the window
and screamed and screamed, she screamed!
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
So I picked up an old newspaper to read
and I noticed something very strange indeed
So I looked a little closer
and it chilled me to the bone
"Woman throws herself from speeding train,
identity unknown"
But I recognized the picture of the woman who was dead
and underneath the picture it said
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb forever
Don''t wanna be under your thumb
it''s over and done
I''ll never be under your thumb forever
david_g
Member
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore:
Zamracene749
Member
Two about the folk that built the railways, at great cost.
The Pogues, from Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Navigator
Genesis- Driving the last spike.
The Pogues, from Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Navigator
Genesis- Driving the last spike.
What a beautiful song
father_jack
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No "Rudy" By Supertramp that features a former BR manager Roger Watkins doing the station announcement ?
Or U.K. "Rendezvous 602". (John Wetton leader).
Or U.K. "Rendezvous 602". (John Wetton leader).
John Griffiths
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Smokestack Lightning by Howlin' Wolf (with harmonica train whistle sound effects)
Western 52
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The Camel album "A Nod and a Wink" has steam loco sounds at the start and end.
Gloster
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If you are going to have station announcers, then The Members‘ Sound of the Suburbs, or at least the original version, has a recording of the voice of Angela Peberdy giving an announcement from ‘Staines. This is Staines’ in the background.
Merle Haggard
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I first heard this on the Michelle Shocked album (Short, Sharp Shocked) and only recently discovered that that was a cover version. Curious that, although the narrator seems to be a small boy most versions are sung by women.
It describesthe disappearance of coal trains vividly remembered from childhood, a change I felt, too, having idled away my school holidays watching a seemingly endless procession of coal trains along a buys line that is now a footpath & cycleway.
Essan
Member
A bit of heavy metal for you: Saxon - Princess of the Night
She used to be an iron horse
Twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me
Through the ice and snow
I've sat alone and watched her
Steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky
Speeding, sparks like lightning
Engine working hard
Furnace on the foot plate
Shining in the night
Iron striking metal
The sound of racing steel
It's all I ever want to hear
It's music to my ears
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
Steaming red hot pistons
See the wheels flash by
Hear the whistle blowing
Streaking down the track
If I ever had my way
I'd bring the princess back one day
(inspired by seeing the Barry Island scrapyard)
She used to be an iron horse
Twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me
Through the ice and snow
I've sat alone and watched her
Steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky
Speeding, sparks like lightning
Engine working hard
Furnace on the foot plate
Shining in the night
Iron striking metal
The sound of racing steel
It's all I ever want to hear
It's music to my ears
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky
Steaming red hot pistons
See the wheels flash by
Hear the whistle blowing
Streaking down the track
If I ever had my way
I'd bring the princess back one day
(inspired by seeing the Barry Island scrapyard)
Ian Anderson The Engineer (about I K Brunel)
All along the new straight track we
Plough the old fields under
Seven good feet and a quarter inch
Broad rails to steal the thunder
100 picks in '36 sent navvies to meet their maker
As black Box Tunnel worms its way
Past the Company undertaker
Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:
God bless Isambard!
Piston-scraping, furnace-busting
(He) plays the winning card
Rain, Steam, Speed at Maidenhead -
Turner's vision wide
Over bridges, girders, hot-driven
Rivets safely guide
Passenger wagons from Paddington
To Bristol's briny blue
On to break the waves, with a thousand
Horses, turn the churning screw
Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:
God bless Isambard!
Piston-scraping, furnace-busting
(He) plays the winning card
But those bonnie lads from way 'oop
North, had to have the final laugh:
The ripe new age was the standard
Gauge, four foot, eight and a half
And rolling out across all Europe
Across the mad, bad Empire world
Came the age of steam and the engines
Roaring, bold brazen Jack unfurled
Arching palaces at Praed Street
Stand lofty and serene;
Home to their maker and his last two
Miles to sleepy Kensal Green
Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:
God bless Isambard!
Piston-scraping, furnace-busting
(He) plays the winning card
All along the new straight track we
Plough the old fields under
Seven good feet and a quarter inch
Broad rails to steal the thunder
100 picks in '36 sent navvies to meet their maker
As black Box Tunnel worms its way
Past the Company undertaker
Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:
God bless Isambard!
Piston-scraping, furnace-busting
(He) plays the winning card
Rain, Steam, Speed at Maidenhead -
Turner's vision wide
Over bridges, girders, hot-driven
Rivets safely guide
Passenger wagons from Paddington
To Bristol's briny blue
On to break the waves, with a thousand
Horses, turn the churning screw
Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:
God bless Isambard!
Piston-scraping, furnace-busting
(He) plays the winning card
But those bonnie lads from way 'oop
North, had to have the final laugh:
The ripe new age was the standard
Gauge, four foot, eight and a half
And rolling out across all Europe
Across the mad, bad Empire world
Came the age of steam and the engines
Roaring, bold brazen Jack unfurled
Arching palaces at Praed Street
Stand lofty and serene;
Home to their maker and his last two
Miles to sleepy Kensal Green
Hard, cast in iron, that engineer:
God bless Isambard!
Piston-scraping, furnace-busting
(He) plays the winning card
OVS Flatbottom
Member
"Texas 1947" by Guy Clark.
Also, in the "train sounds but no train lyrics" category, the Beach Boys' "Caroline, No." (The train noise at the end of that song came from an album of Southern Pacific diesel sounds called "Mister D's Machine" - see https://neckpickup.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/a-ride-on-mister-ds-machine/. Apparently it's three EMD F7s on the Owl (Oakland-LA sleeper) near Bakersfield, California - see the liner notes at https://ia903105.us.archive.org/12/..._no-artist/lp_mister-ds-machine_no-artist.pdf. The original track is at https://archive.org/details/lp_mister-ds-machine_no-artist/disc1/01.01.+Scene+One.mp3.)
Also, in the "train sounds but no train lyrics" category, the Beach Boys' "Caroline, No." (The train noise at the end of that song came from an album of Southern Pacific diesel sounds called "Mister D's Machine" - see https://neckpickup.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/a-ride-on-mister-ds-machine/. Apparently it's three EMD F7s on the Owl (Oakland-LA sleeper) near Bakersfield, California - see the liner notes at https://ia903105.us.archive.org/12/..._no-artist/lp_mister-ds-machine_no-artist.pdf. The original track is at https://archive.org/details/lp_mister-ds-machine_no-artist/disc1/01.01.+Scene+One.mp3.)
BeijingDave
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Yet I believe there is a plaque at Widnes station?
Gloster
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See #73.
WesternLancer
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That is absolutely top trivia!
Sultan1056
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XTC, released an album called “The Big Express” which was unusual because the record sleeve was circular and depicted a steam locomotive wheel on its cover. I believe there is only one track on the album that is railway related; “Train Running Low on Soul Coal”.
norbitonflyer
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Conversely, I also heard soemone pointiung out that Travellers Fare should up their game as the "new competitor" Casey Jones was showing them how it should be done.
Elton John - Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting
"Get about as oiled as a diesel train
Gonna set this dance alight
'Cause Saturday night's the night I like
Saturday night's alright, alright, alright"
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Siemens Trains
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I thought Looking For Linda was inspired by a woman escaping an abusive relationship who the songwriter encountered on a train around the Glasgow area. Therefore a stranger rather than family member, but I could be wrong.
I was always a bit uneasy that it mentioned Leeds Central as if it was the name of her intended station. From what I recall it's simply known as Leeds, meanwhile at the Glasgow end the station is called Glasgow Central. So Linda's journey could end up back where she started due to a slip of the tongue.
Well remembered - it's one I often hum to myself while pacing up and down the platform.
Another Flash that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet is The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, with lyrics:
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
It's another from the 1980s, which seemed increasingly relevant over the past couple of years too!
westernpunk
Member
Engine Engine #9
Roger Miller
Engine, engine number nine
Coming down the railroad line
How much farther back did she get off?
Old brown suitcase that she carried
I've looked for it ev'rywhere
It just ain't here among the rest
And I'm a little upset
Yes, tell me
Engine, engine number nine
Coming down the railroad line
I know she got on in Baltimore
A hundred and ten miles ain't much distance
But it sure do make a diff'rence
I don't think she loves me anymore
I warned her of dangers
Don't speak to strangers
Did by chance she find new romance
Warmer lips to kiss her
Arms to hold her tighter
Stirring new fires inside her
How I wish that it was me instead
Of he that stands beside her
Engine, engine number nine
Coming down the railroad line
I know she got on in Baltimore
A hundred and ten miles ain't much distance
But it sure do make a diff'rence
I don't think she loves me anymore
No I don't think she loves me anymore
I dont think she loves me
Roger Miller
Engine, engine number nine
Coming down the railroad line
How much farther back did she get off?
Old brown suitcase that she carried
I've looked for it ev'rywhere
It just ain't here among the rest
And I'm a little upset
Yes, tell me
Engine, engine number nine
Coming down the railroad line
I know she got on in Baltimore
A hundred and ten miles ain't much distance
But it sure do make a diff'rence
I don't think she loves me anymore
I warned her of dangers
Don't speak to strangers
Did by chance she find new romance
Warmer lips to kiss her
Arms to hold her tighter
Stirring new fires inside her
How I wish that it was me instead
Of he that stands beside her
Engine, engine number nine
Coming down the railroad line
I know she got on in Baltimore
A hundred and ten miles ain't much distance
But it sure do make a diff'rence
I don't think she loves me anymore
No I don't think she loves me anymore
I dont think she loves me
Dr_Paul
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Also by the Grateful Dead, 'Jack Straw':
Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe,
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.
Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride.
They and many others did the traditional song 'I Know You Rider':
I wish I was a headlight on a north-bound train
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain
One by the Dead's lyricist, Robert Hunter, 'That Train':
I see you standing at the station
With your undying hope in hand
You been standing there forever
Waiting for the midnight train to land
I sent a valentine to tell you
What you could have guessed before
But just in case you're still uncertain
That train don't run here any more
That train don't run here any more
Not like it used to run before
When it brought Lady from the city
When it brought Stranger from the shore
Now it doesn't run here any more
That train don't run here any more
(And so on, rest is here.)
Family's 'Buffet Tea for Two' has the narrator arriving at St Pancras, logical for a band from Leicester.
John Fahey's Railroad album consists of ten solo guitar instrumentals inspired by US railways:
'Frisco Leaving Birmingham'
'Oneonta'
'Summer Cat by My Door'
'Steve Talbot on the Keddie Wye'
'Afternoon Espee Through Salem'
'Enigmas and Perplexities of the Norfolk and Western'
'Charlie Becker's Meditation'
'Medley: Imitation Train Whistles/Po'boy'
'Life is Like a Mountain Railroad'
'Delta Dog Through the Book of Revelation'
Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe,
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.
Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride.
They and many others did the traditional song 'I Know You Rider':
I wish I was a headlight on a north-bound train
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain
One by the Dead's lyricist, Robert Hunter, 'That Train':
I see you standing at the station
With your undying hope in hand
You been standing there forever
Waiting for the midnight train to land
I sent a valentine to tell you
What you could have guessed before
But just in case you're still uncertain
That train don't run here any more
That train don't run here any more
Not like it used to run before
When it brought Lady from the city
When it brought Stranger from the shore
Now it doesn't run here any more
That train don't run here any more
(And so on, rest is here.)
Family's 'Buffet Tea for Two' has the narrator arriving at St Pancras, logical for a band from Leicester.
John Fahey's Railroad album consists of ten solo guitar instrumentals inspired by US railways:
'Frisco Leaving Birmingham'
'Oneonta'
'Summer Cat by My Door'
'Steve Talbot on the Keddie Wye'
'Afternoon Espee Through Salem'
'Enigmas and Perplexities of the Norfolk and Western'
'Charlie Becker's Meditation'
'Medley: Imitation Train Whistles/Po'boy'
'Life is Like a Mountain Railroad'
'Delta Dog Through the Book of Revelation'
westernpunk
Member
city boy
5705
5 7 0 5..but there's no reply
5 7 0 5
Got myself just one more dime
But will the operator hold the line
When my ears keeps telling me there's no reply (no reply)
Pick up the telephone
I go crazy when there's no one home
I feel cheated and small when my number's on the wall of your room
Call me soon (Hey operator)
Chorus:
5 7 0 5
But theres no reply
I keep calling
5 7 0 5
Why do you keep me hanging on the line
I can't believe that there's no one there
Is this a private number love affair
With your phonebook lover still waiting on wire (hot wire)
I see the light shine behind your door
I head the party on the second floor
But you only pretend that you've been visiting friends from abroud
Tell me more (Hey operator)
Chorus
Mysterious feeling
I can't believe what she done to me
But it's too late now
It's all over town
5 7 0 5
But there's no reply
5 7 0 5
Can you hold the line x2
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westernpunk
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oops missed that
Zion Train
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Zion train is coming our way
The Zion train is coming our way
Oh, people, get on board! (You better get on board!)
Thank the Lord (Praise Fari)
I gotta catch a train, 'cause there is no other station
Then you going in the same direction (Ooh-ooh)
Zion train is coming our way
The Zion train is coming our way
Which man can save his brother's soul? (Save your brother's soul)
Oh man, it's just self control (Oo-hoo-oo!)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul (Just don't lose your soul)
Wisdom is better than silver and gold
To the bridge (Ooh-ooh!)
Oh, where there's a will
There's always a way
Where there's a will
There's always a way (Way, way, way, way)
Soul train is coming our way, er!
Zion train is coming our way
Two thousand years of history (History)
Could not be wiped away so easily
Two thousand years of history (Black history)
Could not be wiped so easily (Could not be wiped so easily)
Oh, children, Zion train is comin' our way, get on board now!
They said the Zion train is comin' our way
You got a ticket, so thank the Lord!
Zion train is
Zion train is
Zion train is
Zion train
They said the soul train is coming our way
They said the soul train is coming our way