Downbound Train (Single Version)-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:It's Always Time For Good Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry [00:14.02]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.08]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.19]And so he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:23.29]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:31.42]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:34.56]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:37.81]And imps for fuel were shoveling bones [00:40.84]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:49.08]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.17]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.36]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.52]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:01.75]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:04.80]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:27.78]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:31.36]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.57]Wider and wider the country grew [01:37.85]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.02]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:44.30]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:47.70]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:50.61]Till their clothes were burned [01:52.09]And they were screaming with pain [01:53.72]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:57.09]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.99]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:03.72]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:11.88]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.07]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:18.31]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:21.35]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:32.66]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.45]For he never rode that down bound train