Down Bound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:It's Always Time For Good Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down Bound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:14.29]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.35]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.46]And so he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:23.56]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:31.69]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:34.83]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.08]And imps for fuel were shoveling bones [00:41.11]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:49.35]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.44]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.63]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.79]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.02]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:05.07]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:28.05]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:31.63]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.84]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.12]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.29]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:44.57]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:47.97]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:50.88]Till their clothes were burned [01:52.36]And they were screaming with pain [01:53.99]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:57.36]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:01.26]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:03.99]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:12.15]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.34]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:18.58]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:21.62]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:32.93]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.72]For he never rode that down bound train