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Old 09-22-2022, 08:29 PM
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Some great suggestions in here. Don't forget:

Daddy, What's a Train?
Wabash Cannonball
Streamline Cannonball
White House Blues
Reuben's Train (can be played with one chord)
The Train that Carried My Girl From Town
This Train
The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
My Baby Thinks She's a Train
Wreck of the FFV

There's a great Stan Rogers one, whose name I forget, always wanted to learn it
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Old 09-22-2022, 10:08 PM
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Here are a few:

From Gordon Lightfoot, "The Watchman's Gone"


Vashti Bunyan's haunting "Train Song"


For country fans, Doug Stone's "I'd be Better Off"


Johnny Cash with "Orange Blossom Special"
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Jack Straw, I know you Rider Big Railroad Blues by the Dead.
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Seeing Gordon above reminded me - and apologies if it's already been mentioned - of a personal favourite, Steel Rail Blues.

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Nobody mentioned this one:

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I Like Trains - Fred Eaglesmith
People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield
Play A Train Song - Todd Snider - Someone else recommended this one, I think I like when Robert Earl Keen sings it best, but it's versatile enough to played in many different ways. Not to be missed.
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Maybe these three unknows playing Fahey's "Last Steam Engine Train"

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Greenville Trestle High
Hey Porter
The Night they Drove old dixie down
Midnight train to Georgia
Peace Train
Take the A Train
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Driver 8 by REM.
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Gordon Lightfoot: Steel Rail Blues
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Seldom Scene's version of Life Is Like A Mountain Railway

Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffet's excellent Railway Lady

And then a bit less well known is Mickey Newbury's San Francisco Mabel Joy
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Seldom Scene's version of Life Is Like A Mountain Railway

Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffet's excellent Railway Lady

And then a bit less well known is Mickey Newbury's San Francisco Mabel Joy
That would be "Railroad Lady." (written by Buffett and Jerry Jeff while actually riding on a train from New Orleans to Nashville)
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Ozark Mountain Daredevils

"Walking Down The Road"




and "Chicken Train."

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That would be "Railroad Lady." (written by Buffett and Jerry Jeff while actually riding on a train from New Orleans to Nashville)
Of course it is. Late night brain fart but still a great song.
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