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.