Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:Chuck Berry] [al:In the 1950s] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:15.02]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.60] [00:18.11]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.50] [00:21.29]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:24.26]To dream that he rode on that downbound train [00:30.96] [00:32.58]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.58]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.77]And imps for fuel was shoveling bones [00:41.70]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:48.53] [00:50.08]The boiler was filled with lots of beer [00:52.51] [00:53.11]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.80] [00:56.33]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:58.95] [00:59.53]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.13] [01:02.71]Rich men and lost beggars in rags [01:05.25] [01:05.82]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:11.23] [01:28.90]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.09]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.41]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.20] [01:38.80]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.95]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:44.89] [01:45.50]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.51]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:50.99] [01:51.63]Till their clothes were burned with each quivering refrain [01:54.80]Then out of the din there came a yell [01:58.05]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.89] [02:02.11]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.80]They go to Satan to stop that train [02:10.37] [02:12.89]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.51] [02:16.03]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.20]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.34]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:28.19] [02:33.77]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.89] [02:38.41]For he never rode that downbound train