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) [00:13.87]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:16.93]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.04]And so he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:23.14]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:31.27]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:34.41]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:37.66]And imps for fuel were shoveling bones [00:40.69]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:48.93]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.02]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.21]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.37]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:01.60]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:04.65]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:27.63]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:31.21]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.42]Wider and wider the country grew [01:37.70]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:40.87]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:44.15]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:47.55]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:50.46]Till their clothes were burned [01:51.94]And they were screaming with pain [01:53.57]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:56.94]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.84]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:03.57]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:11.73]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:14.92]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:18.16]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:21.20]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:32.51]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.30]For he never rode that down bound train