Key: C major
Verse 1
on a barroom floor
Had drank so much he could drink no more
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain
To dream that he rode on
that downbound train
Verse 2
sweaty and damp
And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp
And imps for fuel was shoveling bones
While the furnace rang with
a thousand groans
Verse 3
The devil himself was the engineer
The passengers were
most a motley crew
Some were foreigners and others he knew
Verse 4
beggars in rags
Handsome young ladies
and wicked old hags
The train rushed on at a terrible
pace
Sulfuric fumes scorched
their hands and face
Verse 5
Faster and faster the engine flew
Louder and louder
the thunder crashed
Brighter and brighter the
lightning flashed
Verse 6
'Til their clothes were burned,
and they were screaming with pain
Then out of the distance
there came a yell
"Ha- ha," said the devil,
"We're nearly home"
Verse 7
shrieked with pain
Begged old Satan to stop that train
The stranger awoke with
an anguished cry
His clothes wet with sweat
and his hair standing high
Verse 8
on the barroom floor
And prayed a prayer like
never before
And the prayers and vows
were not in vain
For he never rode that downbound train
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