Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:The Classic Years, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:15.23]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:18.10]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:21.34]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:24.60]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:31.84] [00:32.65]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.76]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.96]And imps for fuel were shovelling bones [00:41.88]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:49.52] [00:50.22]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:53.31]The devil himself was the engineer [00:56.72]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:59.90]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.89]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:06.05]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:09.70] [01:29.03]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.72]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.67]Wider and wider the country grew [01:39.09]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:42.19]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.48]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.66]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.65]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.03]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.93]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:58.11]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:01.34] [02:02.10]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.87]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:12.09] [02:13.14]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:16.18]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.49]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.53]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:29.16] [02:33.84]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:38.65]For he never rode that down bound train