Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:After School] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:15.10]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:18.48]Had drank so much [00:19.78]He could drink no more [00:21.40]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:24.29]To dream that he rode [00:26.13]On that down bound train [00:29.49] [00:32.53]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:34.99] [00:35.67]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.08] [00:38.80]And imps for fuel were shovelling bones [00:41.28] [00:41.88]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:46.54] [00:50.28]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.09] [00:53.23]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.51] [00:56.63]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.98] [00:59.50]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.27] [01:02.78]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:05.99]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:08.54] [01:28.96]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:31.78] [01:32.57]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.97] [01:35.69]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.18] [01:38.85]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:42.11]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.38]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.01] [01:48.80]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.03] [01:51.72]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.25]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.96]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:58.16]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.87] [02:02.05]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:05.16]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:10.30] [02:12.85]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.35] [02:16.16]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.33]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.27]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:27.61] [02:33.92]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:36.66] [02:38.47]For he never rode that down bound train