Down Bound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Down Bound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:Berry & Holly - Back 2 Back ( 2 Great Artist's 97 Essential Tracks)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down Bound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:15.48]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:18.78]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:22.00]And so he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:25.36]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:32.63] [00:34.11]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:37.37]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:40.86]And imps for fuel were shoveling bones [00:44.22]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:50.97] [00:52.95]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:55.82]The devil himself was the engineer [00:59.48]The passengers were most a Motley Crew [01:02.69]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:06.20]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:09.59]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:14.07] [01:33.95]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:37.74]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:41.10]Wider and wider the country grew [01:44.50]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:47.94]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:51.42]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:54.07] [01:55.06]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:58.15]Till their clothes were burned [01:59.65]And they were screaming with pain [02:01.65]Then out of the distance there came a yell [02:05.01]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:09.36]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:12.25]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:18.58] [02:20.74]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:24.04]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:27.53]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:30.88]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:37.55] [02:42.88]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:47.98]For he never rode that down bound train