Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:Essential Rock 'n' Roll Classics By Chuck Berry] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:14.98]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.94]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:21.33]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:24.48]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:30.35] [00:32.50]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.74]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lam [00:38.93]And imps for fuel were shovelling bones [00:41.76]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:48.13] [00:50.06]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:53.27]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.93] [00:56.58]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:59.66]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.82]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:06.04]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:08.92] [01:28.83]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.58]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.69]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.95]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.99]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.32]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.78]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.57]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.02]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.63]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:58.01]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:01.12] [02:02.02]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.98]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:10.89] [02:12.89]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:16.14]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.14]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.26]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:28.45] [02:33.61]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.47] [02:38.48]For he never rode that down bound train