All aboard! Train songs
The locomotive is a central metaphor to many classic songs, especially in the folk, blues, and country genres! A list would be fun, yes? Includes suggestions made by Brad Deckard and Pannonica.
| Rock n Roll Train | AC/DC |
| I'm a Train | Albert Hammond |
| Two Trains Running | Allen Toussaint |
| In a Station | Band |
| Fool For a Lonesome Train | Ben Harper |
| Gone, Just Like a Train | Bill Frisell |
| Georgia on a Fast Train | Billy Joe Shaver |
| Train Train | Blackfoot |
| Sunshine Special | Blind Lemon Jefferson |
| Brokedown Engine | Blind Willie McTell |
| Freight Train Blues | Bob Dylan |
| It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry | Bob Dylan |
| Slow Train Coming | Bob Dylan |
| Zion Train | Bob Marley |
| Last Train to Heaven | Boxcar Willie |
| Small Town Boy | Bronski Beat |
| Downbound Train | Bruce Springsteen |
| Land of Hope and Dreams | Bruce Springsteen |
| Trains and Boats and Planes | Burt Bacharach |
| Blues in the Night | Cab Calloway |
| Runaway Train | Casey Chambers |
| Peace Train | Cat Stevens |
| Freight Train | Chas McDevitt |
| Spanish Train | Chris de Burgh |
| Downbound Train | Chuck Berry |
| Train in Vain | Clash |
| Destination Anywhere | Commitments |
| Ghost Train | Counting Crows |
| Marrakesh Express | Crosby, Stills & Nash |
| How Long Is This Train | Dan Tyminski |
| Station to Station | David Bowie |
| Long Train Running | Doobie Brothers |
| Love's Train | Dru Hill |
| Poor Paddy on the Railway | Dubliners |
| Take the A Train | Duke Ellington |
| This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore | Elton John |
| Hobo's Lullaby | Emmylou Harris |
| Station Man | Fleetwood Mac |
| Foggy Mountain Breakdown | Foggy Mountain Boys |
| When My Train Pulls In | Gary Clark Jr |
| Midnight Train to Georgia | Gladys Knight |
| Chattanooga Choo Choo | Glenn Miller |
| Canadian Railroad Trilogy | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Steel Rail Blues | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Casey Jones | Grateful Dead |
| Nighttrain | Guns 'n' Roses |
| Lonesome Whistle | Hank Williams |
| Ramblin Man | Hank Williams |
| 500 Miles | Highwaymen |
| Desperados Waitin' for a Train | Highwaymen |
| Houston Train | Hound Mouth |
| Smoke Stack Lightning | Howling Wolf |
| Stimela | Hugh Masekela |
| People Get Ready | Impressions |
| Break Down | Jack Johnson |
| Down in the Tube Station at Midnight | Jam |
| Night Train | James Brown |
| Night Train | Jason Aldean |
| L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore | Jean Ritchie |
| Alabama Bound | Jelly Roll Morton |
| Locomotive Breath | Jethro Tull |
| Hear My Train a-coming | Jimi Hendrix |
| Waiting for a Train | Jimmie Rodgers |
| Longest Train I Ever Saw | Joan Baez |
| Blue Train | Johnny Cash |
| Folsum Prison Blues | Johnny Cash |
| Hey Hey Train | Johnny Cash |
| Hey Porter | Johnny Cash |
| Let the Train Blow the Whistle | Johnny Cash |
| Wreck of the Old 97 | Johnny Cash |
| On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe | Johnny Mercer |
| Don't Stop Believing | Journey |
| Trolley Song | Judy Garland |
| The Train Is Coming | Ken Boothe |
| MTA | Kingston Trio |
| Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains | Kinks |
| Trans-Europe Express | Kraftwerk |
| Casey's Last Ride | Kris Kristofferson |
| Shosholoza | Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
| Midnight Special | Lead Belly |
| Rock Island Line | Lead Belly |
| Orange Blossom Special | Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
| Locomotion | Little Eva |
| Lafayette Railroad | Little Feat |
| Red Streamliner | Little Feat |
| Mystery Train | Little Junior's Blue Flames |
| Baby Got Going | Liz Phair |
| That Don't Stop Here | Los Lobos |
| This Train Is Bound for Glory | Louis Armstrong |
| Choo Choo Ch'Boogie | Louis Jordan |
| Whistle Stop | Louis Prima |
| Kundalini Express | Love and Rockets |
| Tuesday's Gone | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Ghost Train | Madness |
| Soul Train | Manhattans |
| Teen Angel | Mark Dinning |
| Train of Consequences | Megadeth |
| If Love Was a Train | Michelle Shocked |
| Last Train to Clarksville | Monkees |
| Two Trains | Muddy Waters |
| Train Long-suffering | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds |
| Train Song | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds |
| Day We Caught the Train | Ocean Colour Scene |
| Love Train | O'Jays |
| The Train | Outkast |
| Crazy Train | Ozzy Osbourne |
| I've Been Working on the Railroad | Paul Tremaine |
| Ballad of Casey Jones | Pete Seeger |
| C'mon n' Ride It | Quad City DJs |
| Dixie Flyer | Randy Newman |
| Train Yard | Ray Wylie Hubbard |
| Driver 8 | REM |
| Freight Train Moaning Blues | Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band |
| Night Train | Rickie Lee Jones |
| Westbound Train | Robert Ellis |
| Love in Vain | Robert Johnson |
| Engine Engine #9 | Roger Miller |
| All Down the Line | Rolling Stones |
| Runaway Train | Rosanne Cash |
| Wabash Cannonball | Roy Acuff |
| Trains | Ryan Adams |
| This Train | Sandy Denny |
| Morningtown Ride | Seekers |
| Morning Train | Sheena Easton |
| Boxcar | Shovels and Rope |
| Homeward Bound | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Poem on an Underground Wall | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Special Rider Blues | Skip James |
| Runaway Train | Soul Asylum |
| Third Rail | Squeeze |
| City of New Orleans | Steve Goodman |
| Metro | System of a Down |
| Down There by the Train | Tom Waits |
| Downtown Train | Tom Waits |
| Gospel Train | Tom Waits |
| Train Song | Tom Waits |
| Down by the Station | Tommy Dorsey |
| Runaway Trains | Tommy Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| Last Train | Travis |
| She Caught the Train | UB40 |
| Stop That Train | Wailers |
| Night Time in the Switching Yard | Warren Zevon |
| Fisherman's Blues | Waterboys |
| Gandy Dancer's Ball | Weavers |
| Get Me Back on Time Engine Number 9 | Wilson Pickett |
| John Henry | Woody Guthrie |
| Little Black Train | Woody Guthrie |
| Walking Down that Railway Line | Woody Guthrie |
| Train Kept a-Rollin' | Yardbirds |
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Great idea. Nay, Excellent!!
Some more:
Boxcar - Shovels & RopeGeorgia on a Fast Train - Billy Joe Shaver
Morning Train - Precious Bryant
Trains - Ryan Adams
The Train Song - Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Baby Got Going - Liz Phair
That Train Don't Stop Here - Los Lobos
Train Yard - Ray Wylie Hubbard
How Long Is This Train - Dan Tyminski
Casey's Last Ride - Kris Kristofferson
Westbound Train - Robert Ellis
When My Train Pulls In - Gary Clark Jr.
Fool For a Lonesome Train - Ben Harper
Houston Train - Houndmouth
Last Train - Travis
Runaway Train - Kasey Chambers
Freight Train - Preservation Jazz Hall Band
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Wait a minute i got more...
The Impressions~People Get Ready
Los Lobos~Everybody Loves A Train
Big Head Todd & The Monsters~People Train
Tommy James~Midnight Train
Wolfmother~Love Train
Johnny Cash~Like The 309
Johnny Cash~Orange Blossom Special
Aerosmith~Train Kept A Rollin'
Art Brut~Blame It On The Trains
The Band featuring Paul Butterfield~Mystery Train
Beck~Broken Train
Ben Gibbard & Feist~Train Song
Bright Eyes~Train Under Water
Cowboy Troy~I Play Chicken With The Train
David Lee Roth~Big Train
Dire Straits~Eastbound Train
The Ethiopians~Train To Skaville
Gorillaz~Ghost Train
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals~Devil's Train
Green Day~A Little Boy Named Train
John Fogerty~Train of Fools
John Prine~New Train
Johnny Cash~On The Evening Train
The Kills~Night Train
Kurt Vile & the Violators~Freak Train
Lovage~Strangers On A Train
Mark Lanegan Band~Deep Black Vanishing Train
Mavis Staples~Last Train
Old 97s~Please Hold On While The Train Is Moving
Precious Bryant~Morning Train
Randy Newman~Gone Dead Train
Ray Stinnett~Liberty Train
Solomon Burke~Fast Train
T-Model Ford~Two Trains
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers~Runaway Trains
Weezer~Trainwrecks
Wilco~Venus Stop The Train
Alex Winston~Locomotive
The New Basement Tapes~The Whistle Is Blowing
Johnnny Cash~I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs~Subway
Berlin~The Metro
Seasick Steve~Just Because I Can (CSX)
Alejandro Escovedo~Big Station
Dave Alvin~Lonesome Whistle
Bob Dylan~Duquesne Whistle
The Decemberists~One Engine
The Fray~Over My Head (Cable Car)
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band~That Train Song (its called That Train Song on the The Pork N' Beans Collection & Train Song on The Wages album)
Dr. Dog~Station
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