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Train songs
« on: September 03, 2012, 03:32:28 AM »
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2012, 10:06:04 AM »
Flatt & Scruggs - Orange Blossom Special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCBdiutb-50

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1xSt7iganA
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2012, 11:17:14 AM »
No YouTube link, but try the Eagles' version of Midnight Flyer.  Absolutely wonderful.
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2012, 12:41:49 PM »
Was trying to remember the name of the blues tune playing in my head about trains, so did a quick search. Well hell, this isn't going to help. Apparently there are dozens and dozens of train songs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2012, 02:08:34 PM »
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2012, 06:10:05 PM »
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2012, 06:36:28 PM »
John Hammond, 2:19

Ray Wylie Hubbard, Last Train to Amsterdam
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2012, 07:37:02 PM »
Wreck of the old 97 - The Skillet Likkers
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2012, 07:42:10 PM »
"down there by the train" - Tom waits, johnny cash

"2:19" - Tom waits

"train song" - Tom Waits
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2012, 08:06:03 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2012, 08:12:27 PM »
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2012, 08:36:57 PM »
"The Dash of Old 49" -The Smothers Brothers
"Movin' On" - Hank Snow
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2012, 09:34:00 AM »
Social Distortion - Drug Train
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2012, 10:48:30 AM »
Procol Harum - Whiskey Train
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2012, 01:38:05 PM »
Neil Young - Southern Pacific

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBG6Yi_q8Lw
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2012, 01:49:31 PM »
There is only one train song: Midnight Special

All I could find is a version by Creedence Clearwater. Nowhere near as good as the Johnny Rivers version I grew up to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00eJSQimIk
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2012, 01:56:07 PM »
Also by CCR: Cross-Tie Walker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2z3DCtVSy4
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« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2012, 03:03:14 PM »
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2012, 04:32:32 PM »
City of New Orleans- Arlo Guthrie
Used to see it nearly every day.
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2012, 01:22:37 AM »
Sumpin' a little more modern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOHM2Qkt32o

And something first published in 1890 and still a Bluegrass standard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJhEG1U0HY&feature=related
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« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2012, 06:50:10 AM »
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2012, 07:45:41 AM »
Candian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzo6Otpgj-E
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2012, 06:01:43 PM »
"I Like Trains" by Fred Eaglesmith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3QyiOzXx8
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Re: Train songs
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2012, 06:10:44 PM »
tuesday's gone     lynyrd skynayrd

my baby thinks he's a train      roseane cash

orange blossom special

chattanooga choo choo  glenn miller
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Re: Train songs
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