Well, it’s Wednesday and Mr. Procrastination has but a few days to work on his latest plan. The idea is to put together a collection of train-related songs to listen to on his iPod next week while traveling by train to Gaspé, and back.
So Mr. P — no relation to Mr. B (as in Bean) — could use some help before he launches his train-oriented shopping spree on iTunes. What he’s looking for are suggestions. Lots of suggestions.
Mr. P knows that just about everyone has at least one favourite train song, or two, or many. So hit the old Comments button and let fly with suggested song titles — everything from City of New Orleans to the good ol’ Wabash Cannonball.
And when he’s finished, hopefully before the train literally leaves the station, Mr. P will come back and post a new note here listing all the song titles he received and a complete list of those that made his Train Sound-Tracks playlist. (Even at .99 cents per song, he may run out of money at iTunes.)
Folsom Prison and Hey Porter by Johnny Cash.
The only one I can think of right now is one by John Fogerty called Southern Streamline. Good luck with the list.
Big Steel Rail (Gordon Lightfoot), Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel), King of the Road (Roger Miller), This Train (Woody Guthrie), Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull), The Letter (Box Tops), Long Train Running (Doobie Brothers), Bob Dylan’s Dream (Bob Dylan), Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Gordon Lightfoot), Last Train to Clarksville, Runaway Train (by various), Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & the Pips), Early Morning Rain (by various), Casey Jones (various)
I love City of New Orleans above all others but you’d already mentioned it, btw.
500 Miles – Peter, Paul, & Mary
Take the A Train – Glenn Miller? One of those big band guys
Hobo’s Lullaby – Arlo Guthrie
Peace Train – Cat Stevens
Wabash Cannonball; Queen of the Rails – Utah Phillips – Utah has several train songs
Casey Jones – Tom Russell
Wagon Wheel – Old Crow Medicine Show (a favorite of mine, not actually a train song, but mentions south bound train in it LOL)
Baby Likes to Rock It – The Tractors
Desperados Waitin’ for a Train – Highwaymen (willie nelson, waylon jennings, kris kristoferson)
Here’s a pretty good list of train songs, most of which are unfamiliar, but a lot that are!
http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/songs.html