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Lá vem o Trem - Agepê (1975)

Blue Archive (mobile gacha game) has an…event? Characters? Plus a boss fight against some schoolgirls themed around trains.

Ok, poor explanation but their theme song is pretty banger. https://youtu.be/eWmQLvW9bjk https://youtu.be/6ITgnMiM2DU

Scatman John - Night Train

Orient Express

Edit seems to only instrumental.

I only know the Finnish version originally

Pikajuna Meksikon

Edit 2 here are the translated lyrics (i didn't bother checking so it's ai translate)

Verse 1]

The express train is speeding through Mexico, it's already night The spotlights sweep the shiny track The barking of a coyote is heard, fading into the noise of the locomotive

Behind the Sierra Madre, the moon is bulging like cheese

The atmosphere in the first-class carriage is sleepy. Passengers, men, women, everyone is dozing. Then the pace slows down and almost stops. What could be the reason for the stop?

Verse 2]

The brakes squeal on the wheels, the carriage door opens. Two men rush in, talking dirty. Little Pete, Big Pat, both gangsters. Both of them are brandishing large crowbars.

"Hands up, gentlemen!" shouts a sharp command

Big Pat and shoots at the ceiling a couple of times:

"It would be wise for everyone to open their wallets now

"Listen to the one who is wearing shoes"

[Verse 3]

No one can resist, Little Pete guards Big Pat while he evacuates with his fingers the most accustomed Rings and purses, medallions, wallets

The robber also searches the suitcases alone. Nothing is left for the victims, the prey exceeds their hopes. Little Pete hisses at the top of his lungs: "Men are beaten to a pulp, but women are taken away."

"I can't be without my beloved now."

[Verse 4]

A rumbling laugh rings out, Big Pat now echoes his Partner's words and soon grunts: "Okay, that's what we'll do, we'll have a decent harem."

"Let's take the dirt to a hidden cave behind the Sierra Madre"

Then from the trap of the carriage, from among the gentlemen

Hidalgo now steps forward, says: "Señores, do whatever you want to us, but spare the women, otherwise you will have a bad memory."

[Verse 5]

A moment of silence follows, the suggestion is strange, new

Ha, now there's a commotion in the women's group too. An old maid, now, fifty years old, demands the floor and immediately gets it. Her eyes blazing with anger, she jumps on her feet and begins to vent her anger at Hidalgo:

"What is the gentleman talking about and fussing about? Let's do as the bandits order."

Huh-hah-heija, we'll do as the bandits order

Edit 3 i feel like there were more of those in the song than in tje lyrics page I looked at

Doesn't Kenny Rogers' The Gambler take place on a train? not about a train per say but the story is set on a train, right?

The train song - nick cave

Lots of these songs involve trains. This one is about trains: I Often Dream of Trains - Robin Hitchcock

Train in the Distance by Paul Simon

One of my favorite artists, Tim Barry, does (or maybe did) some train hopping so some of his songs are about his experience riding in boxcars and that's reflected in his album art. A few of his that come to mind are: Driver Pull Chirch of Level Track Steel Road

But for an actual song about a train, I didn't see "Wabash Cannonball" yet. You can make a playlist from different Artists renditions of this song. Roy Acuff's take on it is the one that I associate with the song but the Limeliters is probably my favorite.

This album is about actual train wrecks, I believe.

The Ghost of Hope by The Residents

Freight train rolling on by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, and a bunch of other blues songs are related to trains, built around sounds and rhythms the trains make, or around journeying on trains.

Night Train to Munich by Al Stewart

Kasey Chambers does a cover of a Fred Eaglesmith song "Freight Train" I love it

FSK “Hobo Zwiefacher” from their album “The Sound of Music”

Song is in German. On the CD (unfortunately missing on YouTube) there’s a little intro in English describing that a Zwiefacher is a Bavarian song style featuring two different topics mixed together, then says, “This is our Zwiefacher, about incest and trains.”

Edit: also the opening scene from The Music Man is about trains in a very unusual way

Georgia on a Fast Train - Billy Joe Shaver

Desperados Waiting for a Train - Guy Clark

Edit: fucked up a song title

Do you like movies about gladiators?

Flanders & Swann - The Slow Train https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU&list=RDU6OHD2uCpfU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUOdGhlIHNsb3cgdHJhaW6gBwE%3D&ra=m

One way ticket by Eruption is a disco classic :)

https://youtu.be/sFyV5ejkc9o

за кордоном

Two Gallants - Train that stole my man. They haven’t done anything new for years though.

Glendale Train by Ner Riders of the Purple Sage

Technically about a train robbery.

Adding:

Monkey and the Engineer by the Grateful Dead

Night train to Mundo Fine
Night train to the end
Running hard and running fast
To meet my future and away from my past
Taking that gamble that cannot last
Night train to the eeeeeend!

Hell’s ride to Mundo Fine
Hell’s ride to the end
Sold my soul to the devil’s men
He draws me hard with a merciless hand
And all I bought is a handful of sand
Night train to the eeeeeeend!

I’m on this ride ’cause I have no pride
In myself, or in men, or in God!
Now if you want to share in the price of my fare
Then fill your mind with greed that is blind
And wander in its evil fog

Night train to Mundo Fine
Night train to the end
Running hard and running fast
To meet my future and away from my past
Taking the gamble that cannot last
Night train to the eeeeeend!

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjJjrjTlNY

Train by Avatar 🚂

The newer band 19 Miles Per Hour does parody concert samples on their socials. It's often pirate puns, but there's an Alice in Trains set, so to speak. Here comes the Choo Choo. Rail me. I forget what else

The train and the gate (instrumental) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qu4dp97e0k

Freight Train by Alan Jackson (different to the other songs titled Freight Train that I've seen linked so far)

I learnt about The Okaihau Express from Jetlag: The Game

Bob Dylan, "Slow Train Coming" Also, "It Takes a lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" He's got to have other train songs, too, none others occur to me at the moment.

"Chattanooga Choo-choo" was really big something like 100 years ago.

How about an entire album?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Aboard!_(John_Denver_album)

My baby takes the morning train...

Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint - An instrumental record of train sounds. Pretty phenomenal record IMO. Though it's not one you listen to over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNY7JhPbYug

G.E.M.【單行的軌道 One Way Road】

No subtitles, but quick search for English Lyrics: Here

Has the word "Train" in it. MV has train. This qualifies???

I just randomly came across this song not too long ago xD

(Not really about trains per se, but more of used as a metaphor)

I'm a big fan of trains by porcupine tree, really great song when sitting in the train going through the country too.

Asleep On The Train by San Fermin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHkKJfcBXcw

First one I thought of.