Downbound Train-Chuck Berry

[00:14.90]A stranger lying on a bar room floor [00:17.95]Had drank so much he could drink no more [00:20.69] [00:21.27]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain [00:24.15]To dream that he rode on that down bound train [00:30.74] [00:32.26]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.30]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.68]And imps for fuel were shovelling bones [00:41.65]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:48.98] [00:49.92]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:52.89]The devil himself was the engineer [00:55.50] [00:56.29]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:59.25]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.50]Rich men in broadcloth beggars in rags [01:05.56]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:08.40] [01:28.66]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.21]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.34]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.55]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:41.77]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.06]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:47.93] [01:48.47]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.45]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.23]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.68]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:57.56]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:00.97] [02:01.77]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:04.11] [02:04.69]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:11.81] [02:12.66]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:15.76]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.08]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.26]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:28.69] [02:33.39]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:37.66] [02:38.21]For he never rode that down bound train