Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:Express Yourself] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.46]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:01.47]Written by：Chuck Berry [00:02.11] [00:14.81]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.88]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.63] [00:21.21]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:23.70] [00:24.22]To dream that he rode on that downbound train [00:29.82] [00:32.34]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.40]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.66]And imps for fuel was shoveling bones [00:41.56]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:47.73] [00:49.87]The boiler was filled with lots of beer [00:52.91]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.59] [00:56.33]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:59.33]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.53]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:05.51]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:08.66] [01:28.57]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.12]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.38]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.66]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.88]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.11]Brighter and brighter the lightning flashed [01:48.49]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.29]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.01]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.66]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:57.85]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.93] [02:01.78]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.62]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:10.30] [02:12.65]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.80]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.14]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.16]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:27.81] [02:33.33]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:36.39] [02:38.18]For he never rode that downbound train