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As performed 2008-04-09 on Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...
Train arrive 16 coaches long
Train arrive 16 coaches long
Well that long black train
Got my baby and gone
Train train rolling down the track
Train train rolling down the track
Don't want no ride
Just want my baby back
Got down to the station
I was waitin' at the gate
I asked the station master
If the train is running late
He said "If you're a-waiting
On the 444
I hate to tell you son
That train don't stop here anymore"
Mystery train rolling down the bend
Train train rolling round the bend
Don't want no ride
Want my baby back home again
Train train rolling down the track
Train train rolling down the track
Don't want no ride
Just want my baby
Just want my baby
Just want my baby back
Just want my baby back
Alternate verses performed 2009-08-28, Toronto:
Got down to the station
It was the middle of the night
When I got down to the station
The train was pulling out of sight
Mystery train windows painted red
Mystery train windows painted red
Death black train has
Got my baby and fled
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First known performance:
July 23, 1989, Tokyo, Japan - snippet in medley with Uncomplicated February 12, 2005, Bristol, UK - first full performance - dedicated to Joe Strummer Last known performance:
October 3, 2010, San Francisco, CA (70 known performances, 1 as a snippet)
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Recordings by other artists
- Little Junior's Blue Flames, single, 1953
- Elvis Presley, single, 1955
- Scotty Moore, on The Guitar That Changed The World!, 1964
- The Paul Buttersfield Blues Band, on The Paul Buttersfield Blues Band, 1965
- Rick Nelson, on Country Fever, 1967
- James Burton, on The Guitar Sounds Of James Burton, 1971
- Jerry Reed & Chet Atkins, on Me & Chet, 1972
- The Band, on Moondog Matinee, 1973
- Tom Fogerty, on Deal It Out, 1981
- The Soft Boys, on Two Halves For The Price Of One, 1981
- Neil Young, on Everybody's Rockin', 1983
- The Flying Burrito Brothers, on Live From Amsterdam 1985, 1985
- Emmylou Harris, on Thirteen, 1986
- Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, on Keystone Encores, Volume 2, 1988
- Fairground Attraction, on the "Perfect" single, 1988
- Dwight Yoakam, on It's Now Or Never: The Tribute To Elvis, 1994
- Leon Russell, on Live At Gilley's, 2000
- Wanda Jackson, on I Remember Elvis, 2006
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