Down Bound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Down Bound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:The Best of Rock & Roll, Vol. 2: Chuck Berry] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down Bound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:15.36]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.90] [00:18.43]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.92] [00:21.59]And so he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:23.72] [00:24.77]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:29.64] [00:32.77]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.17] [00:35.88]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.60] [00:39.16]And imps for fuel were shoveling bones [00:41.46] [00:42.16]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:47.30] [00:50.35]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.44] [00:53.43]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.10] [00:56.90]The passengers were most a Motley Crew [00:58.76] [00:59.98]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:01.99] [01:03.02]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:05.54] [01:06.14]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:08.26] [01:29.23]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:31.88] [01:32.74]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:34.99] [01:35.88]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.21] [01:39.05]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.36] [01:42.23]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.09] [01:45.61]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.18] [01:49.02]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.33] [01:51.93]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.01]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.40] [01:55.12]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:58.39]"Ha ha" said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.72] [02:02.27]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.42] [02:05.23]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:10.04] [02:13.16]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.31] [02:16.34]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:18.96] [02:19.57]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.59]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:27.78] [02:33.94]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:36.78] [02:38.83]For he never rode that down bound train