Train Songs
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I love songs about trains and I guess that I always will,
This blog is a train song game to test your recall skills.
I will give you two lines from a train song and you guess,
The famous train song title to see how many you can get.
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The answers will be provided in order at the very end,
Now don’t cheat by looking on the internet my friend,
Until you have compiled all your answers feeling good,
Country folk will get at least 7 of 10 like they should.
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Train Songs
“Listen to the Jingle, the rumble, and the roar,
As she glides across the woodlands by the hills and by the shore.”
I heard this song on the Grand Ole Opry so many times,
Sung by Roy Acuff who also wrote this fine train tune.
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“She left Cincinnati headin’ down that Dixie line,
When she passes that Nashville tower, you can hear that whistle whine,”
This song was sung by Hank Williams a while back.
Who also recorded it making it part of his singing act.
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“He was going down the grade doing 90 miles and hour,
When the whistle broke into a scream,”
This train song was written by Boxcar Willie one fine day,
My favorite version of the song is by Tommy Collins, I say.
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” Looky yonder comin’,
Comin’ down that railroad track”
This song was sung by Johnny Cash that we all know,
It was a super hit for him played a lot on Americas radio.
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“That train is a beauty makin’ everybody stare,
But its only destination is the middle of nowhere.”
This song was written by Josh Turner, a nice young man,
Who made a super hit out of it all over this great land.
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“Good morning America,how are you?
Say, don’t you known me? I’m your native son.”
Are words from a Willie Nelson song that I do love to hear,
It’s about a train ride through Mid America that is so near.
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“When I was just a baby, my mama told me, Son,
Always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns”
Ah yes another famous Johnny Cash song about trains,
He had so very many and none of them were plain.
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“Goodbye, so long, I hate to leave you, but I’ve gotta go,
Goodbye, so long, it’s coming now, just heard that whistle blow”
Stonewall Jackson had a hit with this song on the charts,
I loved this song when I was a youngster, a fresh upstart.
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” I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk
He said, If you got money, boy, I’ll see that you don’t walk”
Jimmie Rogers wrote and sang this song before my time,
He was known as The Blue Yodeler with his lonely whine.
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“Looky yonder coming, coming down the railroad track,
And see the black smoke rolling, rolling from that old smoke stack.”
Merle Haggard sang this Jimmie Roger tune on an album.
I thought that Merle would make a good railroad bum.
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By Bill
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Answers
1, Wabash Cannonball
2. Pan American
3. The Wreck Of Old 97
4. Orange Blossum Special
5. Long Black Train
6. The City Of New Orleans
7. Folsom Prison Blues
8. Smoke Along The Track
9. Waiting For A Train
10. Train Whistle Blues
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Thanks for reading Train Songs,
Bill