Trains

500 Miles

Peter, Paul and Mary, 1961

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone.

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,

Lord I'm 500 miles from my home.

500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles

Lord I'm five hundred miles from my home.

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name,

Lord I can't go back home this a-way

This a-away, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way

Lord I can't go back home this a-way

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles

Songwriters

ROBT HYMAN/ERIC BAZILIAN/RICH CHERTOFF/WEST

Peace Train

Cat Stevens, 1971

3:10 Train to Yuma

Frankie Laine, 1957

There is a lonely train,

Called the 3:10 to Yuma.

The pounding of the wheels,

Is more like a mournful sigh.

There's a legend and there's a rumour.

When you take the 3:10 to Yuma,

You can see the ghosts,

Of outlaws go riding by, (riding by)

In the sky (in the sky),

'Way up high.

The buzzards keep circling the train,

While below the cattle are thirsting for rain.

It's also true they say,

On the 3:10 to Yuma,

A man can meet his fate (not faith--assholes!).

For fatetravels everywhere.

'Though you've got no reason to go there,

And there ain't a soul that you know there.

When the 3:10 to Yuma whistles its sad refrain.

Take that train (take that train)

Take that train.

Songwriters

NED WASHINGTON, GEORGE DUNING

Long Train Running

Doobie Brothers, 1973

Locomotive Breath

Jethro Tull, 1971

In the shuffling madness

Of the locomotive breath

Runs the all time loser

Headlong to his death

Oh, he feels the piston scraping

Steam breaking on his brow

Old Charlie stole the handle

And the train, it won't stop going

No way to slow down   Oh, oh

He sees his children jumping off

At stations one by one

His woman and his best friend

In bed an' having fun

Oh, he's crawling down the corridor

On his hands and knees

Old Charlie stole the handle

And the train, it won't stop going

No way to slow down

Yeah, yeah

He hears the silence howling

And catches angels as they fall

And the all time winner

Has got him by the balls

Oh, he picks up Gideon's Bible

Open at page one

I thank God, he stole the handle

And the train, it won't stop going

No way to slow down (6x)

The LocomotionLittle Eva, 1962

Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)

I know you'll get to like it

If you give it a chance now

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)

My little baby sister can do it with ease

It's easier than learning your a be see's

So come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now

Come on baby, jump up, hmmm jump back

Oh well I think you got the knack

Now that you can do it

Let's make a chain now

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)

Chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train now

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)

Do it nice and easy now don't lose control

A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul

So come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now

Come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

Yeah

Move around the floor in a loco-motion

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)

Do it holding hands if you got the notion

(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)

There's never been a dance that's so easy to do

It even makes you happy

When you're feeling blue

So come on come on do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now

Come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

Yeah

Come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now

Come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

Yeah

Come on, come on,

Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now