[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:01.00]Downbound Train - Chuck Berry (查克·贝里) [00:15.10]A stranger lying on a bar room floor  [00:18.48]Had drank so much [00:19.78]He could drink no more   [00:21.40]So he fell asleep with a troubled brain  [00:24.29]To dream that he rode [00:26.13]On that down bound train [00:32.53]The engine with blood was sweaty and damp [00:35.67]And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp [00:38.80]And imps for fuel were shovelling bones [00:41.88]While the furnace rang with a thousand groans [00:50.28]The boiler was filled with lager beer [00:53.23]The devil himself was the engineer [00:56.63]The passengers were most a motley crew [00:59.50]Some were foreigners and others he knew [01:02.78]Rich men in broadcloth  beggars in rags [01:05.99]Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags [01:28.96]As the train rushed on at a terrible pace [01:32.57]Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face [01:35.69]Wider and wider the country grew [01:38.85]Faster and faster the engine flew [01:42.11]Louder and louder the thunder crashed [01:45.38]Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed [01:48.80]Hotter and hotter the air became [01:51.72]Till their clothes were burned [01:53.25]And they were screaming with pain [01:54.96]Then out of the distance there came a yell [01:58.16]Ha ha said the devil we're nearing home [02:02.05]Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain [02:05.16]And begged old Satan to stop that train [02:12.85]The stranger awoke with an anguished cry [02:16.16]His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high [02:19.33]He fell on his knees on the bar room floor [02:22.27]And prayed a prayer like never before [02:33.92]And the prayers and vows were not in vain [02:38.47]For he never rode that down bound train