BIG BILL BROONZY - THIS TRAIN

THIS TRAIN

BIG BILL BROONZY

SONGWRITER: UNKNOWNED

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TROUBLE IN MIND

LABEL: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

GENRE: GOSPEL

YEAR: 2000

Trouble in Mind is an album by American blues musician Big Bill Broonzy. It was released on February 22, 2000 by Smithsonian Folkways. The album consists of traditional folk, blues, and spiritual songs featuring Broonzy accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and a guest appearance by Pete Seeger. Suffering from cancer, Broonzy realized his time was limited and hence recorded extensively between 1956 and 1957. While most of the work draws from the album Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues (1957), arranged by Moses Asch and Charles Edward Smith, Trouble in Mind is also sourced from concert broadcasts and interviews recorded late in Broonzy's career.BLike other albums issued by Smithsonian Folkways, Trouble in Mind has been kept in print; the production quality of the album is higher than most installments of the label's catalogue. An accompanying booklet, arranged by Jeff Place and Anthony Seeger, includes photos and notes documenting Broonzy's stint with Folkways. While Trouble in Mind only represents the latter portion of Broonzy's career, music critics have recognized the album for its historically significant material.

"This Train", also known as "This Train Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922. Although its origins are unknown, the song was relatively popular during the 1920s as a religious tune, and it became a gospel hit in the late 1930s for singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. After switching from acoustic to electric guitar, Tharpe released a more secular version of the song in the early 1950s.

The song's popularity was also due in part to the influence of folklorists John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, who discovered the song while making field recordings in the American South in the early 1930s and included it in folk song anthologies that were published in 1934 and 1960. These anthologies brought the song to the attention of an even broader audience during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.

This train don't carry no gambles, this train

This train don't carry no gambles, this train

This train don't carry no gambles

No whiskey drinkers, and no high flyers

This train carry no gambles, this train

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train is bound for glory

Don't carry nothing, but the righteous an' the holy

This train bound for glory, this train

This train don't carry no liars, this train

This train don't carry no liars, this train

This train don't carry no liars

No hypocrites and no high flyers

This train don't carry no liars, this train

This train is built for speed, boy, this train

This train is built for speed, now, this train

This train is built for speed

Fastest train you ever did see

Now, this train is built for speed, boy, this train

This train is solid black, oh, this train

This train is solid black, oh, this train

This train is solid black

When you go there you don't come back

Oh, this train is built for glory, this train

This train don't fit no trasportation on this train

This train don't fit no trasportation on this train

This train, you know, don't fit no transportation

No Jim Crow and no discrimination on

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train don't care if you white or black on this train

This train don't care if you white or black on this train

This train don't care if you white or black

Everybody's treat'd just like a man

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train is bound for glory

Don't carry nothing but the righteous an' a holy

This train is bound for glory, this train

This train

This train

This train.