Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:Rock 'n' Roll Heroes ... Chuck Berry] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:14.64]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.83]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.97]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:24.12]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:32.17]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.30]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.55]And imps for fuel was shovelling bones [00:41.47]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:49.71]The boiler was filled with lots of beer [00:52.84]The devil himself was the engineer [00:56.15]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:59.27]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.42]Rich men and lost beggars in rags [01:05.60]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:28.52]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.17]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.35]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.53]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.69]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:44.97]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.37]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.32]Till their clothes were burned with each quivering refrain [01:54.43]Then out of the din there came a yell [01:57.78]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:01.63]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.59]They go Satan with this down bound train [02:12.52]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.70]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:18.91]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.00]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:33.20]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:38.09]For he never rode that down bound train