This Train

About This Train

"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. more »

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This train is a clean train, you know, this train
This train is a clean train, I said, this train
This train is a clean train, everybody riding in Jesus' name
Because this train is a clean train, oh, this train

This train has left the station, you know, this train
This train has left the station, I said, this train
This train has left the station and this train takes on every nation
Because this train is a clean train, you know, this train

It's the prettiest train I ever have seen, oh, this train
It's the prettiest train I ever have seen, oh, this train
It's the prettiest train I ever have seen
But if you want to ride it, you better get redeemed
Because this train is a clean train, oh, this train

This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, I said, this train
This train is bound for glory, everybody riding her must be holy
Because this train is a clean train, you know, this train

You know, this train don't pull no jokers, I'm on this train
This train don't pull no jokers, no, this train
I said, this train don't pull no jokers
No tobacco chewers and no cigar smokers
Because this train is a clean train, you know, this train

This train don't pull no weight 'cause I'm on this train
This train don't pull no weight 'cause I'm on this train
This train don't pull no weight 'cause no prop shooter to no whisky drinker
Because this train is a clean train, this train

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. A one-of-a-kind pioneer of 20th-century music, Tharpe attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings that were a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment. As the first recording artist to impact the music charts with her spiritual recordings, Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and also became known as "the original soul sister." She was a treasured early influence on iconic figures such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash. more »

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