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Chucky Berry
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Chucky Berry
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Miscellaneous
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Downbound Train
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DOWNBOUND TRAIN
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Chuck Berry
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A stranger lying on a bar room floor
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had drank so much he could drink no more,
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and so he fell asleep with a troubled brain
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to dream that he rode on that down bound train.
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The engine with blood was sweaty and damp
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and brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp,
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and imps for fuel was shoveling bones
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while the furnace rang with a thousand groans.
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The boiler was filled with lager beer
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the devil himself was the engineer,
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the passengers were most a motley crew,
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some were foreigners and others he knew.
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rich men and lost beggars in rags
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handsome young ladies and wicked old hags.
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As the train rushed on at a terrible pace
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sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face,
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wider and wider the country grew
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faster and faster the engine flew,
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louder and louder the thunder crashed
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brighter and brighter the lighting flashed,
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hotter and hotter the air became
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til their clothes were burned with each quivering refrain.
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Then out of the din there came a yell
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ha ha said the devil we're nearing home,
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oh how the passengers shrieked with pain
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And begged ol' satan to stop that train
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The stranger awoke with an anguished cry
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his clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high,
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he fell on his knees on the bar room floor
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and prayed a prayer like never before.
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And the prayers and vows were not in vain
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for he never rode that down bound train.
Downbound Train
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