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) [00:13.64]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:16.70]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:19.81]And so he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:22.91]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:31.04]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:34.18]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:37.43]And imps for fuel were shoveling bones [00:40.46]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:48.70]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:51.79]The devil himself was the engineer [00:54.98]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.14]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:01.37]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:04.42]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:27.40]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:30.98]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.19]Wider and wider the country grew [01:37.47]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:40.64]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:43.92]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:47.32]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:50.23]Till their clothes were burned [01:51.71]And they were screaming with pain [01:53.34]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:56.71]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.61]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:03.34]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:11.50]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:14.69]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:17.93]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:20.97]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:32.28]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.07]For he never rode that down bound train