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Re: Train songs

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Peter, Sue & Marc - Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaGKBTDNsn4
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Here's my favourite train song, "The Mallard" by Michael Chapman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhpayM1V8T4
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Al Stewart!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-oJ5bzlwTc
Apple Cider Reconstitution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9NUmPV_Ts
Trains

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Thanks for the Al Stewart links (I hadn''t heard the second song). Michael Chapman and Al Stewart are friends and played a show in London together around 2000. Michael Chapman has recorded an instrumental called "Trains". He says it started life as two trains, then it became three trains etc. and then he lost count! Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_bs_Lrj7w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=968I3O6XdS4
Another Peter Paul and Mary Train song.
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I saw Al Stewart in concert recently (with his fabulous guitarist Tim Renwick). Night Train to Munich was on the setlist. It seems trains are a theme with him.

How about this live desert blues version of Win My Train Fare Home, by Robert Plant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnmWZ1aULHE
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Kush wrote:Merle Haggard wrote a lot of train songs ... here is one of my favorites

The Coming and Going of the Trains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJph3hlPb8
Hi Kush,

Merle Haggard had a close connection to trains even when he was young. He lived in a boxcar. Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9S6hGX3_o.

Thanks for posting "The Coming And The Going Of The Trains."
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Thanks for the video clip Steven. I have not seen it before. I always say Merle Haggard is Woody Guthrie's true successor !
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