NEIL SEDAKA - ONE WAY TICKET TO THE BLUES

ONE WAY TICKET TO THE BLUES

NEIL SEDAKA

SONGWRITERS: KELLER, JACK & HANK HUNTER

COUNTRY: usa

ALBUM: Sedaka's 1959 single

LABEL: rca victor

GENRE: pop

YEAR: 1959

"One Way Ticket" is a song performed by Neil Sedaka, written by Jack Keller and Hank Hunter. The track was originally included as the B-side on Sedaka's 1959 single "Oh! Carol". In 1961, the song featured in the track listing of his third studio album, Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits, but was never released as a standalone single. Despite this, the song made it to #1 on the Japanese pop charts, where it was affectionately called "The Choo-Choo Train Song".

"One Way Ticket" has been covered by other artists, most notably by British disco band Eruption in 1978 and Soviet band "Поющие гитары" ("Poyuschie Gitary" - "The Singing Guitars") in 1969 by the name "Синий иней" ("Siniy Iney" - "Blue Frost").

Choo, choo train chuggin' down the track

Gotta travel on, never comin' back

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues

Bye, bye love my baby's leavin' me

Now lonely teardrops are all that I can see

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues

Gonna take a trip to lonesome town

Gonna stay at heartbreak hotel

A fool such as I that never learns

I cry a tear so well

Choo, choo train chuggin' down the track

Gotta travel on, never comin' back

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues

Gonna take a trip to lonesome town

Gonna stay at heartbreak hotel

A fool such as I that never learns

I cry a tear so well

Choo, choo train chuggin' down the track

Gotta travel on, never comin' back

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues

Oh, oh got a one way ticket to the blues.