https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:24:42 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382452 Sat, 11 May 2013 14:38:09 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group John Sargent https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382452 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382451 Sat, 11 May 2013 14:15:43 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group hagrider https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382451 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382447 Sat, 11 May 2013 07:18:15 +0000 Then they sing a song about a train
Then another song about a train
Folksingers are boring :lol: ...I bet Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends like folk music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382447 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382446 Sat, 11 May 2013 06:36:34 +0000 One verse reads
First they sing a song about a train
Then they sing a song about a train
Then another song about a train
Folksingers are boring.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group John Sargent https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382446 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382443 Sat, 11 May 2013 05:04:47 +0000
Good start :D I like the "tears" line and and the verse about the mother. In all, it leans a bit on the vague side, but that's not a bad thing.

It reminds me of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43-UUeCa6Jw

Thanks for sharing.

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-382443 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/11-27-she-talks-to-passing-trains/#post-44257 Fri, 10 May 2013 07:44:22 +0000
She Talks To Passing Trains

She talks to passing trains
As they roll through her town
But no one ever hears
And the trains do not slow down

She sees the trains go by
Always heading far away
She hopes the engineer
Will stop the train and say

(chorus)
Come with me
Come down the tracks
Come with me
And never come back

She lies awake at night
And thinks of the containers
That went by that day
And what they had inside

She counts them in her head
Cars linked like streams of tears.
In loud parade
Percussing through the years

(chorus)

She talks to passing trains
Like her mother did before
Afraid to buy a ticket
Mother never got aboard

She talks to passing trains
But no one ever hears
There will never be an answer
Till she lets go of her fears

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