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"Same Old Train" and "Reuben's Train" appear on the 1998 collaboration album, "Tribute to Tradition", while "No More Trains to Ride" appears on Merle Haggard's 1976 album, "My Love Affair with Trains".
Lyrics:
"Same Old Train"
[Clint Black]
I got on in Bristol, by the old Virginia line
With a suitcase full of dreams and a brand new spendin' dime
[Pam Tillis]
I had a full bouquet of music wrapped in pretty words
Singin' songs sent down from heaven on the wings of a speckled bird
Wings of a speckled bird
[Randy Travis]
I heard a guitar and a fiddle, banjo and mandolin
An old man opened up the door and told me, "Come on in"
[Marty Stuart]
He took my ticket, then he told me, "Bring what it is you do
'Cause that's how you'll be remembered when you're travelin' days are through"
When you're travelin' days are through
[Chorus]
They came from the hills and mountains, the valleys and the plains
Some were kind and gentle, and some too wild to tame
[Emmylou Harris]
A string of fearless hearts on an endless ball of twine
It's the same old train, it's just a different time
Just a different time
[Instrumental bridge]
[Merle Haggard]
We sung songs in war, we sung songs in peace
We traveled in abundance, and we traveled on relief
[Travis Tritt]
From the outer gates of heaven, to hellfire's burnin' door
It don't matter where you take it 'cause it's been there before
It's been there before
[Chorus]
They came from the hills and mountains, the valleys and the plains
Some were kind and gentle, and some too wild to tame
[Merle Haggard]
A string of fearless hearts on an endless ball of twine
[All]
It's the same old train, it's just a different time
Just a different time
[Alison Krauss performs fiddle bridge]
[Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless]
Now like a precious treasure, that's immeasurable in worth
We stand before a new wave, proud children of the Earth
[Joe Diffie]
We'll go on forever, and here's your solid proof
As long as there's a world, we've gotta sing those folks the truth
Sing those folks the truth
[Chorus 2]
[Dwight Yoakam]
They came from the neon cities, the suburbs and the towns
From Bakersfield to Baltimore, it's sacred holy ground
[All]
A string of fearless hearts on an endless ball of twine
It's the same old train, it's just a different time
Just a different time
Just a different time
Just a different time
[Instrumental bridge]
It's the same old train, it's just a different time
Same old train, just a different time
Songwriter: Marty Stuart
Music Producer: Marty Stuart
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"Reuben's Train"
Instrumental American Folk song, circa 1880
This is the song Earl Scruggs was playing when he first discovered how to pick the banjo with three fingers instead of two. He was 10 years old at the time.
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"No More Trains to Ride"
From Haggard's 1976 album, "My Love Affair With Trains".
I was raised in Santa Fe reefer
In little California town
Three door down from the railroad track
Where they set the old boxcar down.
Born the son of a railroad man
Who rode 'em until he died
I'd like to live like my daddy did
But there's no more trains to ride
[Chorus]
No, no more trains to ride
No more trains to ride
I'd like to live like daddy did
But there's no more trains to ride.
[Instrumental bridge]
I learned to be a guitar picker
Singing and strummin' long
Songs like Hobo Bill's Last Ride
I love the good ramblin' song
Bill was the son of a rambling man
Who rambled until he died
I'd like to live like Billy did
But there's no more trains to ride
No, no more trains to ride
No more trains to ride
I'd like to live like daddy did
But there's no more trains to ride
Songwriter: Merle Haggard
Music Producers: Ken Nelson and Fuzzy Owen
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Video Producer of "Same Old Train Suite": Eleanor Plant
