Message #2384

[DeJaVue]

Not as many are aware of this pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist as should be...IMHO!
But she achieved great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock accompaniment...yes, I said "rock!" She became the first great recording star of Gospel music, surfacing on the pop charts with her 1938 original composition "This Train."

Now, I'm not sure I have the lyrics just right because these are different from her other recordings, so listen and help me out, please!! Anyway, I really, really like this version, and I hope you enjoy it, too!

This Train
by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ztB-AFpPkk&feature=related

This train is a free train
This train
This train is a free train
This train
This train is a free tain
Everybody ride it in Jesus' name
This train is a free train
This train

This train have left the station
This train
This train have left the station
This train
This train have left the station
This train takes on every nation
This train is a free train
This train

She travels straight to the upper most
This train
She travels straight to the upper most
This train
She travels straight to the upper most
Nothing can ride her, but the blood-washed host
Because this train is a free train
This train

This train don't pull no gamblers
This train
This train don't pull no gamblers
This train
This train don't pull no gamblers
No four-day's creeper, no midnight rambler
Because this train is a free
This train

This train don't pull no liars,
This train
This train don't pull no liars,
This train
This train don't pull no liars, no false pretenders, and no back-biter
Because this train is a free train
This train!!