De beste spoorweg liedjes ooit…
Liedjes met treinen… wie kent kedeng kedeng (Het Spoor) van Guus Meeuwis niet? Welke liedjes met daarin treinen als thema mag je niet missen?
Want laten we eerlijk zijn…. Guus met dat kedeng, kedeng is voor een keer leuk maar is nu toch wel mooi genoeg geweest? Nou dan. TIjd voor andere nummers en let op…. sommige nummers kende je al wel, maar dat er een thema als spoorwegen in zat….. dat wist je nog niet.
Onderstaand een lijst die we in de loop van de tijd hebben verzameld met liedjes waarin de trein / spoorweg een rol speelt (hoe klein soms ook). Bij zoveel mogelijk nummers hebben we ook de meest bekende artiesten geplaatst.
| Across the Tracks Blues | Duke Ellington |
| Algoma Central | Stompin’ Tom Connors |
| Another Train Coming | Kim Weston |
| At the Station | Joe Walsh |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | Johnny Mercer, Judy Garland |
| Back Up Train | Al Greene |
| Baggage Coach Ahead | Mac Wiseman |
| Ballad of Eugene Victor Debs | Joe Glazer |
| Big Black Train | Flatt & Scruggs |
| Big Freight Train Carry Me Home | Boxcar Willie |
| Big Rock Candy Mountain | Harry McClintock |
| Big Steel Rail | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Big Train From Memphis | Credence Clearwater Revival |
| Big Train Running | The Doobie Brothers |
| Blow That Lonesome Whistle Casey | A. Dexter |
| Blue Railroad Train | Doc Watson |
| Blue Train | Johnny Cash |
| Blue Water Line | Brothers Four |
| Boxcar Blues | Boxcar Willie |
| Boxcars | Joe Ely |
| Boxcar’s My Home | Willie Nelson |
| Brave Engineer | Cisco Houston |
| Bringin’ In the Georgia Mail | D. Reno en B. Harrell, Jim en Jesse McReynold, Flatt en Scruggs |
| Bummin’ an Old Freight Train | Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass |
| Bummin Around | Boxcar Willie |
| Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo | Joe Glazer |
| Ca Roule | CANO |
| Canadian Pacific | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Canadian Railroad Trilogy | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Cannonball | Carter Family, Seldom Scene |
| Cannonball Blues | Grandpa Jones |
| Cannonball Rag | Doc Watson |
| Casey Jones | Johnny Cash, Grateful Dead, Joe Glazer |
| Chattanooga Choo Choo | Glenn Miller, J. McCollum, Bill Haley |
| Chick-A-Choo | B. Newman |
| Chicken Train | Ozark Mountain Daredevils |
| Chinacat Sunflower | Grateful Dead |
| Choo Choo Chooboogie | Louis Jordan |
| City of New Orleans | Steve Goodman, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Arlo Guthrie |
| Clinchfield Special | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Coal Smoke, Valve Oil and Steam | Johnny Horton |
| Cold Mountains | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Come Closer, Lord | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Come On Train | Don Thomas |
| Country Express | W. Raney |
| CPR Blues | Robert Charlebois |
| Crazy Train | Ozzy Osbourne |
| Crosstie Walker | Credence Clearwater Revival |
| Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy | Johnny Cash |
| Daddy was a Railroad Man | Boxcar Willie |
| Daddy, What’s a Train? | Joe Glazer |
| Danville Girl | Joe Glazer |
| Daughter of A Railroad Man | Johnny Cash |
| Daybreak Express | Duke Ellington |
| Desert Moon | Dennis DeYoung |
| Desperadoes Waiting for the Train | Rita Coolidge |
| Destination Anywhere | The Marvelettes |
| Destination Victoria Station | Johnny Cash |
| Devil’s Train | Roy Acuff |
| Diplomat, The | Johnny Cash |
| Dixie Flyer | Randy Newman |
| Do The Choo-Choo | Archie Bell & The Drells |
| Don’t Miss That Train | Sister Wynona Carr |
| Down By the Station | Four Preps |
| Down There By the Train | Johnny Cash |
| Downbound Train | Bruce Springsteen |
| Downtown Train | Rod Stewart, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tom Waits |
| Drill, Ye Tarriers | Dick & Jacquie Schuyler |
| Drive the Last Spkie | Genesis |
| Driver 8 | REM |
| Driving the Last Spike | Genesis |
| Dulcimer | Dave Mallet |
| Dying Hobo | Doc Watson, Joe Glazer |
| Eastbound Freight Train | Reno and Smiley |
| Engine Engine Number 9 | Roger Miller |
| Engine Number 9 | Wilson Pickett |
| Engine of Love | Earl Jordan |
| Estatoe | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Express | B.T. Express |
| Fast Freight | Kingston Trio |
| Fast Train | Bobby Parker |
| Fireball Mail | Flatt en Scruggs, Roy Acuff |
| Five Hundred Miles | Kingston Trio |
| Flyin’ CPR | Stompin’ Tom Connors |
| Folsom Prison Blues | Johnny Cash |
| Freedom Train | James Carr, Merle Haggard |
| Freight Train | Libba Cotton |
| Freight Train Blues | B. Martin, Boxcar Willie, Roy Acuff |
| Freight Train Boogie | Doc Watson, Reno and Smiley, Whitstein Brothers |
| Freight Train, Freight Train | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| Friendship Train | The Temptations |
| Frisco road | Bruce Phillips |
| Funky Soul Train | Hank Ballard |
| Gandy Dancer’s Ball | Frankie Lane |
| Georgia on a Fast Train | Billy Joe Shaver, Johnny Cash |
| Get Back on the Train | phish |
| Get Down Off Of the Train | Isley Brothers |
| Getting Up Holler | Cisco Houston |
| Ghetto Train | Luther Ingram |
| Ghost Train | Bee Gees |
| Glendale Train | The New Riders Of The Purple Sage |
| Go Go Train | Freda Payne, Marc Cohn, Counting Crows |
| Going Away | Bruce Phillips |
| Going Home Train | Irving Berlin |
| Golden Rocket | Hank Snow |
| Gospel Train | Stevie Hawkins, Wright Brothers Jubilee Singers, Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
| Graveyard Train | Credence Clearwater Revival |
| Great American Bum | Cisco Houston |
| Greenville Trestle High | Doc Watson |
| Hank Williams and the Hobo | Boxcar Willie |
| Happy Go Lucky Local | Duke Ellington |
| Hear My Train a Comin | Jimi Hendrix |
| Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow | Roger Whittaker |
| Hello Hopeville | Michelle Shocked |
| Hey Porter | Johnny Cash |
| Hey, Hey Train | Johnny Cash |
| Hobo Bill | Cisco Houston |
| Hobo Bill’s Last Ride | Hank Snow, Merle Haggard |
| Hobo Heaven | Boxcar Willie |
| Hobo Jungle | The Band |
| Hobo, You Can’t Ride This Train | Louis Armstrong |
| Hobo’s Meditation | Joe Glazer |
| Hoosier Time | French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra |
| I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow | Hank Williams, Johnny Cash |
| I Love the Sound of A Whistle | Boxcar Willie |
| If Love was a Train | Michelle Shocked |
| I’m Leaving On That Late, Late Train | Solomon Burke |
| I’m Movin’ On | Ray Charles |
| In a Station | The Band |
| In the Pines | Merle Travis & Mac Wiseman |
| India Pacific, The | Slim Dusty |
| Indiana Is So Rich | French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra |
| It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry | Bob Dylan |
| I’ve Been Working on the Railroad | Mitch Miller en the gang, Sandhills Sixteen |
| I’ve Got A Thing About Trains | Johnny Cash |
| Jenny Dreamed Of Trains | John Denver |
| Jesse James | Grandpa Jones |
| Jimmie the Kid | Jimmie Roger |
| John Henry | Hylo Brown, Merle Travis |
| Jump that train | Foghat |
| Jumping Someone Elses Train | Cure |
| Just like this Train | Joni Mitchell |
| Kansas City Railroad Blues | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Keep on Rollin’ Down The Line | Boxcar Willie |
| King of the Road | Boxcar Willie, Roger Miller |
| L&M Don’t Stop Here Anymore | Michelle Shocked, Johnny Cash |
| Last Call For Dinner | French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra |
| Last Cannonball | Mary McCaslin |
| Last Fair Deal Gone Down | Robert Johnson |
| Last Train | Peter Rowan, Graham Central Station, Arlo Guthrie |
| Last Train Done Gone Down | John Denver |
| Last Train For Glory | Arlo Guthrie |
| Last Train Home | Pat Methany |
| Last Train To Clarksville | Four Tops, The Monkees |
| Last Train To Loveland | Eddie Hinton |
| Lazy Locomotive | S. Burrette |
| Le Train du Nord | Felix LeClearc |
| Lee Highway Blues | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Legend of John Henry | Johnny Cash |
| Let Me Ride the Southbound | Rex Allen |
| Let the Train Wistle Blow | Johnny Cash |
| Life Is A Mountain Railroad | Carter Family |
| Life’s Railway to Heaven | Amazing Rythm Aces, Patsy Cline |
| Light at the End of the Tunnel | Richie Havens |
| Little Train From Caipira | Heiton Villa-Lobos |
| Loco-Motion | Little Eva |
| Locomotive | Motorhead, Sawyer Brown |
| Locomotive Breath | Jethro Tull |
| Locomotive Man | Johnny Cash |
| London Train | Oliver Sain |
| Lonesome Joe | Boxcar Willie |
| Lonesome Whistle | Johnny Cash, Stonewall Jackson, Boxcar Willie |
| Long Train Runnin | The Doobie Brothers |
| Long Twin Silver Line | Bob Seger |
| Lord of the Trains | Tom Russell |
| Losing My Blues Tonight | Slim Dusty |
| Love and wealth | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Love In Vain | R. Johnson |
| Love Train | Jimmy Castor Bunch, The O’Jays |
| Love’s Train | Con Funk Shun |
| Man Who Paid My Fare | French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra |
| Many a Man Killed on the Railroad | Joe Glazer |
| Marrakesh Express | Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| Me and Bobby McGee | Kris Kristofferson |
| Medicine Train | The Cult |
| Memories of Home | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Memphis Flyer | Neil Diamond |
| Memphis Train | Rufus Thomas |
| Metro, The | Berlin |
| Midnight Flyer | Osborne Brothers, The Eagles, Mac Wiseman |
| Midnight Special | Credence Clearwater Revival, Leadbelly, Joe Glaser |
| Midnight Train | Jim en Jesse McReynolds |
| Midnight Train to Georgia | Gladys Knight en The Pips |
| Monticello Moon | French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra |
| Moose-Turd Pie | Bruce Phillips |
| Morning Train | Sensational Nightingales |
| Morning Train (9 to 5) | Sheena Easton |
| Mother In The Train | The Detroiters en The Golden Echoes |
| Movin On | Hank Snow |
| My Baby Thinks He’s A Train | Roseanne Cash |
| Mystery Train | Elvis Presley, The Neville Brothers, Sleepy LaBeef, Ronnie Hawkins |
| Never did Like that Train | Murray McLaughlan |
| New Delhi Freight Train | Little Feat |
| New River Train | Raffi |
| Nickel Plate Road 759 | Bruce Phillips |
| Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | Joan Baez |
| Night Time In the Switch Yard | Warren Zevon |
| Night Train | James Brown, Oscar Peterson, Buddy Morrow, Bobby Womack |
| Night Train to Memphis | Grandpa Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Acuff |
| Nine Hundred Miles | New Christy Minstrels, Cisco Houston, Woodie Guthrie |
| Nine Pound Hammer | David Grisman en Doc Watson, Merle Travis |
| No Leaf Clover | Metallica |
| Nobody Takes the Train Anymore | Holly Dunn |
| Old Buddy, Goodnight | Bruce Phillips |
| Old Gospel Train | Dorothy Love Coate |
| Old Iron Trail | Boxcar Willie |
| Old Train | Seldom Scene, Tony Rice Unit |
| On the 5.15 | The Who |
| On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe | Johnny Mercer, Tommy Dorsey |
| On the Railway | Traditional |
| On the Slow Train | Flanders and Swann |
| On the Southbound | Mac Wiseman |
| One after 909 | The Beatles |
| One More Ride | Johnny Cash, Hank Snow |
| Orange Blossom Special | Johnson Mountain Boys, Bill Monroe en His Bluegrass Boys, Johnny Cash, Flatt en Scruggs,D. Stoneman, Charley Daniels Band |
| Pacific 231 | Arthur Honnegar |
| Pan American | Hank Williams, Seldom Scene, H. Hawkins |
| Pan American Boogie | Kate MacKenzie |
| Parliamentary Trains | Gilbert & Sullivan |
| Party Train | GAP Band |
| Passin Train | Sawyer Brown |
| Pat Works On the Railroad | Joe Glazer |
| Peace Train | Cat Steven |
| Pennsylvania Sunrise | Dave Mallet |
| People Get Ready | Rod Stewart, Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions |
| People Got To Be Free | Rascals |
| Per Spoor / Kedeng Kedeng | Guus Meeuwis |
| Petticoat Junction Theme | Flatt & Scruggs |
| Phoebe Snow | Bruce Phillips |
| Poor Poor Pitiful Me | Warron Zevon |
| Put Me on a Train Back to Texas | W Jennings en W Nelson |
| Queen of the Rails | Bruce Phillips |
| Railroad Bill | Cisco Houston |
| Railroad Blues | D. Thomas |
| Railroad Express | Rose Royce |
| Railroad Lady | Jimmy Buffett |
| Railroad Man | Murry McLaughlan |
| Railroad Son | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Railroad Worksong | Notting Hillbillies |
| Railroads and Riverboats | Jim Croce |
| Rambler, The | Cisco Houston |
| Ramblin’ Man | Kieran Kane |
| Rambling Blues | R. Johnson |
| Rambling Hobo | Doc Watson |
| Red Ball to Natchez | Delmore Brothers and Wayne Raney |
| Red Streamliner | Little Feat |
| Refrigerator Car | Spin Doctors |
| Reuben’s Train | Flatts and Scruggs, Sidesaddle |
| Ride This Train | Canton Spiritual, Alabama |
| Ridin On the Cottonbelt | Johnny Cash |
| Ridin’ That Midnight Train | Doc Watson |
| Ridin’ With The Driver | Motorhead |
| Riding On A Railroad | James Taylor |
| Roamer | Cisco Houston |
| Rock Island Line | Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Huddy Ledbetter |
| Roll On Buddy | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| Runaway Train | Elton John, Eric Clapton, Rosanne Cash, Soul Asylum |
| Same Train | Julius Cheek |
| Same Train, Different Time | Jimmy Rogers |
| Santa Fe All The Way | Johnny McCollum |
| Sentimental Journey | Les Brown |
| She’s a Hoosier Line | French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra |
| Silver Train | Rolling Stones |
| Silverton, The | C. W. Mccall |
| Six-Five Special | Don Lang & His Frantic Five |
| Slow Moving Freight Train | Hugh Moffatt |
| Slow Train | Flanders en Swann, Soul Stirrers, The Staple Singers |
| Smoke Along the Track | Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakim |
| Soul Train | Gamble and Huff, Mary Wells, The Manhattans, Three Degrees |
| Southbound | Doc Watson |
| Southern Pacific | Neil Young, Steve Spurgin |
| Spanish Train | Chris DeBurgh |
| Spice Train | Spice Train |
| Spikedriver Blues | Doc Watson |
| Starlight on the Rails | Bruce Phillips |
| Station to Station | David Bowie |
| Steam | Johnny Horton |
| Steam Engine | Monkees |
| Steel Rails | Allison Kraus, John Denver |
| Stop That Train | The Meters, The Wailers |
| Strangers on a Train | New Riders of the Purple Sage |
| Streamlined Cannonball | Doc Watson, Mac Wiseman |
| Take the “A” Train | Bob Wills en His Texas Playboys, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn |
| Tennesse Central No. 9 | Roy Acuff |
| Texas Silver Zephyr | Red Steagall |
| Texas, 1947 | Johnny Cash, G. Clark |
| That Old Train Whistle | Smothers Brothers |
| That Train | Jerry Butler |
| The Gallopin’ Goose | C. W. Mccall |
| The Gambler | Kenny Rogers |
| The Letter | Box Tops, Joe Cocker |
| The Rail Song | Adrian Belew |
| The Railroad Song | Jim Croce |
| The Train & The Horse | Lonnie Brooks |
| There’s a Train | Holmes Brothers |
| Third Class Wait Here | Slim Dusty |
| This Train | Woody Gutherie, Tommy Tate |
| This Train Revisited | Indigo Girls |
| This Train’s A Clear Train | Joe Glazer |
| Throw Mama From the Train | Patti Paige |
| Toe River Train | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Tolono | Bruce Phillips |
| Tons of Steel | Grateful Dead |
| Train | Charles Jackson |
| Train kept a Rolling | Johnny Burnette |
| Train 45 | Mac Wiseman, Stanley Brother |
| Train in Vain | Rolling Stones |
| Train Is Coming | Ken Boothe |
| Train Keep On Movin’ | The 5th Dimension |
| Train Kept A Rollin | Aerosmith |
| Train Kept A Runnin | Yardbirds |
| Train Leaves Here This Morning | Eagles |
| Train Of Consequences | Megadeth |
| Train of Love | Johnny Cash en Willie Hutch |
| Train Song | Murray McLaughlan, Holmes Brothers, Nick Cave |
| Train time | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Train, Train | Blackfoot |
| Trains | Al Stewart |
| Trains And Boats And Planes | Dionne Warwick |
| Trains, Tracks and Travel | Hank Snow |
| Trainwreck of Emotion | Del McCoury, Lorrie Morgan |
| Trans Europe Express | Kraftwerk (vergeet de engelse versie, je wilt de duiste versie horen) |
| Transit Ride | Guru |
| Trouble Funk Express | Trouble Funk |
| Two Trains Running | Little Feat |
| Union train | Joe Glazer |
| UP Song | UP Country Western Band |
| Valve Oil | Johnny Horton |
| Vergnügungszug | Johann Strauss II |
| Wabash Cannonball | Carter family, Chet Atkins, B. Martin, Doc Watson, Bruce Phillips, Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff |
| Waiting at the Station | Aaron Neville |
| Waiting For a Train | J.L. Lewis, Jimmie Rogers, Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, Jim Reeves |
| Walkin Holes in My Shoes | Boxcar Willie |
| Walking Down a Railroad Line | Woody Guthrie |
| Walking the Ties | Toe River Valley Boys |
| West End Blues | Duke Ellington |
| Westbound Train | Dennis Brown |
| When the Golden Train Comes Down | Sons of the Pioneers |
| When You’re Only Nine | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Whistle Stop | Louis Prima |
| Will There Be Any Freight Trains In Heaven | Jimmy Rogers |
| Won’t Be Long | Aretha Franklin |
| Working on the Railway | Bill Houston |
| Worried Man Blues | Cisco Houston |
| Wreck Above Spruce Pine | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Wreck of 1262 | Doc Watson |
| Wreck of the L&N | Phillips Family |
| Wreck of the Number 9 | Hank Snow |
| Wreck of the Old 97 | Flatt & Scruggs, Mac Wiseman, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash |
| Wreck of the Royal Palm | Joe Glazer, Toe River Valley Boys |
| You Just Can’t Ride the Boxcars Anymore | The Long Ryders |
| You’re the Same Old You To Me | Toe River Valley Boys |
| Zion Train | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
En? Hebben we nog een mooi nummer gemist? Laat het ons weten, we zijn zeer benieuwd!!
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