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) [00:14.28]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.34]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.45]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 [00:49.34]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.43]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.62]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.78]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.01]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:05.06]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:28.04]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:31.62]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.83]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.11]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.28]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:44.56]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:47.96]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 [02:01.25]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:03.98]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:12.14]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.33]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:18.57]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:21.61]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:32.92]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.71]For he never rode that down bound train