This Train Is Bound for Glory - American gospel spiritual acoustic guitar & vocal by Jack Straw
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- This Train Is Bound for Glory or simply This Train (Dis Train) likely originated in the African American gospel tradition, with its powerful metaphor of a train bound for glory symbolizing the journey to heaven and salvation. First recorded by Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet in 1924. Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1939 introduced it to a whole new audience and helped make it a staple of the folk music revival of the '60s.
Too many covers to bother name any.
My version started with Woody Guthrie (in fact I thought it was a song he had written when I first heard it) and was then influenced by the recordings of Wood's Famous Blind Jubilee Singers (1925) and Famous Garland Jubilee Singers (1931). Lyrical variations abound and I really could find any that felt right for me so other than first verse and the 'Clean train' version, I wrote my own inspired by the tradition of different lyrics.
Lyrics:
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory
Don't carry nothing but the righteous and the holy
This train is bound for glory, this train
Don't need a ticket to ride aboard, this train
Don't need a ticket to ride aboard, this train
On this train you don't need no ticket
Just spread love, don't be wicked
This train don't leave from a station, this train
This train don't leave from a station, this train
This train don't leave from a station,
Only has one destination
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train can leave without warning, this train
This train gonna leave without warning, this train
This train gonna leave without waring
May leave now or Sunday morning
This train can leave without warning, this train
This train gonna cleanse your sins, this train
This train gonna cleanse your sins, this train
This train gonna cleanse your sins
Everyone say there amens
This train gonna cleanse your sins, this train
This train is a clean train, this train
This train is a clean train, this train
This train is a clean train
'Cause everyone rides in Jesus name
This train is a clean train, this train
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory
Climb onboard if you want to be holy
This train is bound for glory, this train
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