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Dis Train/This Train
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: The American Caravan 1938
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK7-Byw1kEA
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Dis Train [Me III-B20]
Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet recorded in 1924 for OKeh
Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers
Delmore Brothers. Dis Train
Vaughan Happy Two
RECORDING INFO: This Train [Me III-B20]
Rt - Same Train ; Motherless Children
Pb - This Train's a Clean Train
Winds of the People, Sing Out, Sof (1982), p152
Sing Out Reprints, Sing Out, Sof (1959), 3, p27
Cooney, Michael (ed.) / How Can We Keep From Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1974), p57
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Hootenanny Tonight!, Gold Medal Books, sof (1964), p 54
Lomax, Alan / Folksongs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p484/#255
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p 97
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p321
Herder, Ronald (ed.) / 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics, Dover dn500/500, Sof (1998), p347
Abe and Malka. Mandelblatt, Abe & Malka A. / 100 Guitar Accompanyments, Amsco, Sof (1974), p144
Biddleville Quintette. Cohen, Norm (ed.) / Long Steel Rail. The Railroad in American Folksong, U. Illinois, Sof (2000/1981), p629 [1927/01ca] (This Train Is Bound for Glory) Broonzy, Big Bill. Sings Folk Songs, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40023, LP (1989), trk# 2
Broonzy, Big Bill. Asch, Moses (ed.) / 124 Folk Songs as Sung and Recorded on Folkways Reco, Robbins, Fol (1965), p110
Camacho, Steve. Folk and Other Songs, Cook 1127, LP (1962), trk# A.05
Cravens, Red; and the Bray Brothers. 419 West Main, Rounder 0015, CD/ (1972), trk# 2 Denny, Sandy. Sandy Denny, Saga 13153, LP (1979), trk# 1
Ensign, Bob; and the Stump Jumpers. Mountain Guitar Pickin', Rural Rhythm RRBE 255, LP (1972), trk# A.08
Folkswingers. 12 String Guitar!, World Pacific WP 1812, LP (1963), trk# B.07
Gibson, Bob. Everybody Sing, Vol 2., Riverside RLP 1419, LP (196?), trk# 12a
Glazer, Tom. Glazer, Tom / Eye Winker, Tom Tinker, Chin Chopper. Fifty Musical Fin..., Doubleday/Zephyr Books, Bk (1973), p84
Hammond, John; Jr.. John Hammond, Vanguard VRS 9132, LP (1968/1964), trk# A.05
Houston, Cisco. Cisco Special, Vanguard VSD-2042, LP (196?), trk# A.06
Inman and Ira. Exciting New Folk Duo, Columbia CS 8531, LP (1962), trk# A.04
Limeliters. Through Children's Eyes, RCA (Victor) LSP-2512, LP (1962), trk# A.01
McDonald, Walter ("Tight-Eye"). Lomax, J. A. & A. Lomax / American Ballads and Folk Songs, MacMillan, Bk (1934), p593 [1930s?]
Montgomery, Chris. Folk Favorites, Clodhopper, Cas (1989), trk# 5
Peter, Paul & Mary. Peter, Paul and Mary, Warner 1449, LP (1962), trk# 4
Seekers. Seekers, Pickwick SPC-3068, LP (197?), trk# B.01
Teagarden, Jack. Swing Low Sweet Spiritual, Capitol T 820, LP (195?), trk# A.06
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta. Sorry But I Can't Take You; Women's Railroad Blues, Rosetta RR 1301, LP (1980), trk# 14 [1939/01/10]
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta. Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Complete Recorded Works, Vol 2, Document DOCD 5335, CD (1995), trk# 6 [1943/01]
OTHER NAMES: "This Train Is Bound For Glory"
RELATED TO: "That Same Train" "Dat Train"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index; This Train Is Bound for Glory [Me III-B20]
NOTES: "Dis Train" or "This Train Is Bound for Glory" is a title of a spiritual taken from the Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet recorded in 1924 for OKeh. It was subsequently recorded by white early country groups like the Delmore Brothers and Vaughan Happy Two under the title "Dis Train."
Typical African-American dialect lyrics were printed in the 1930s in books like The American Caravan.
Dis Train- The American Caravan 1938
Dis train boun' for glory
Dis train, Oh Hallelujah
Dis train boun' for glory
Dis train, Oh Hallelujah
Dis train boun' for glory
Ef yuh ride no need fret er worry,
Dis train, Oh Hallelujah, Dis train.
Dis train don' carry no gambler
Dis train, Oh Hallelujah
Dis train don' carry no gambler
Dis train, Oh Hallelujah
Dis train don' carry no gambler
No fo' day creeper er midnight rambler
Dis train, Oh Hallelujah, Dis train.
It was recorded by other black gospel groups in the 1920s (Wood's Blind Jubilee Singers, 1925; Southern Plantation Singers, 1928; Biddleville Quintette, 1929); covered by (and credited to) "Sister" Rosetta Tharpe, New York, NY, Jan 10, 1939 (Decca 2558);
covered by Big Bill Broonzy in 1956 (live recording, "Storyville," Copenhagen, DK) and on "The Big Bill Broonzy Story: Last Session -- Volume 2" (Chicago, IL, Jul 12, 1957); lyrics of Big Bill Broonzy's version reprinted in Fred & Irwin Silber (eds.), Folksinger's Wordbook, New York, 1973, p. 56.
[other lyrics upcoming]
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