Downbound Train by Chuck Berry

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Downbound Train
By: Chuck Berry

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Duration:	2:52
Release Date:	1956 (CapSuper)
Lyrics By:	Chuck Berry (sav-man)
Music By:	Chuck Berry (sav-man)
Produced By:	Leonard & Phil Chess (sav-man)
Released By:	Chess Records (sav-man)
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From the 1957 album AFTER SCHOOL SESSION. (sav-man)

Great song done in train-style rhythm. Features Willie Dixon on bass. (sav-man)

B-side of his third single (CapSuper)

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A stranger lying on a bar room floor
Had drank so much he could drink no more,
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain
To dream that he rode on that downbound train.

The engine with blood was sweaty and damp
And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp,
And imps for fuel was shoveling bones
While the furnace rang with a thousand groans.

The boiler was filled with lots of beer
The devil himself was the engineer,
The passengers were most a motley crew,
Some were foreigners and others he knew.
Rich men and lost beggars in rags
Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags.

As the train rushed on at a terrible pace
Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face,
Wider and wider the country grew
Faster and faster the engine flew,
Louder and louder the thunder crashed
Brighter and brighter the lightning flashed,

Hotter and hotter the air became
Till their clothes were burned with each quivering refrain.
Then out of the din there came a yell
Ha ha, said the devil, we're nearing home,

Oh, how the passengers shrieked with pain
They go to Satan with this downbound train.

The stranger awoke with an anguished cry
His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high,
He fell on his knees on the barroom floor
And prayed a prayer like never before.

And the prayers and vows were not in vain
For he never rode that downbound train.
(I B Emerson)

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Available on the following albums:
20 Great Tracks [Import]	3-CD Chess Boxed Set	Anthology [Original recording remastered]
Gold [Original recording remastered]	His Best, Vol. 1 [Original recording remastered]	Twin Best [Import]
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	03-23-13, #13-12	04-29-84, #84-18

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