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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor some weird reason I awakened thinking of this Woody Guthrie song
From my childhood:
(GOOD LUCK TO US ALL, AND TO ALL AMERICA TODAY)
This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train is bound for glory,
Don't carry nothing but the righteous and the holy.
This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train don't carry no gamblers, this train;
This train don't carry no gamblers, this train;
This train don't carry no gamblers,
Liars, thieves, nor big shot ramblers,
This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train don't carry no liars, this train;
This train don't carry no liars, this train;
This train don't carry no liars,
She's streamlined and a midnight flyer,
This train don't carry no liars, this train.
This train don't carry no smokers, this train;
This train don't carry no smokers, this train
This train don't carry no smokers,
Two bit liars, small time jokers,
This train don't carry no smokers, this train.
This train don't carry no con men, this train;
This train don't carry no con men, this train;
This train don't carry no con men,
No wheeler dealers, here and gone men,
This train don't carry no con men, this train.
This train don't carry no rustlers, this train;
This train don't carry no rustlers, this train;
This train don't carry no rustlers,
Sidestreet walkers, two bit hustlers,
This train is bound for glory, this train.
Walleye
(30,998 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Glad you enjoyed it!
🌞 ☕️ 🍳 🗳 🔵🌊🇺🇸🍑👋
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)In my head for the day!
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)PCIntern
(25,518 posts)JPPaverage
(508 posts)Sing it Sister!
Vinca
(50,255 posts)PCIntern
(25,518 posts)malaise
(268,867 posts)Happy November 3
Never heard that...thanks!!
Happy Nov 3rd to you and yours...this is for all the marbles.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Listening while I drink my coffee! 🌞☕️🗳🔵🌊🇺🇸🍑
malaise
(268,867 posts)drinking BLUE mountain coffee until noon and then BLUE Nun after - looking for a blue tsunami tonight
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Its a beautiful morning here in GA! 🍊🗳🇺🇸👋
Harker
(14,008 posts)to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, as I did.
OneBlueSky
(18,536 posts)I know that Woody sang it, but I was pretty sure he didn't write it . . . so I checked out Wikipedia . . .
"This Train", also known as "This Train Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922. Although its origins are unknown, the song was relatively popular during the 1920s as a religious tune, and it became a gospel hit in the late 1930s for singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. After switching from acoustic to electric guitar, Tharpe released a more secular version of the song in the early 1950s.
The song's popularity was also due in part to the influence of folklorists John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, who discovered the song while making field recordings in the American South in the early 1930s and included it in folk song anthologies that were published in 1934 and 1960. These anthologies brought the song to the attention of an even broader audience during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s."
I know that Pete Seeger often performed it in concert, and I believe he and Arlo recorded it for one of their live "in concert" albums . . . actually, there probably isn't an American folk singer who hasn't performed it at one time or another . . . thanks for posting the lyrics so we can all keep humming and/or singing it throughout the day . . . if indeed "this train don't carry no liars," at least we know we won't bump into Donald Trump in the club car . . .
PCIntern
(25,518 posts)Was the one that was played incessantly. Thanks for the info!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Lyrics
I'm gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose.
All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Youâ??re bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!
People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching â??cross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
Youâ??re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!
Iâ??m going into this battle
And take my union gun
Weâ??ll end this world of slavery
Before this battleâ??s won
Youâ??re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!