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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Bump as new songs have been added.
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Bumping it on down the line...
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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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Heck yeah.
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This a great idea for a playlist. I hope Songpop will do it.
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This is one of the best ideas I've seen. Songpop, please do this.
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