Talk:This Train
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Sentence meaning?
[edit]This sentence Bruce Springsteen's 1999 song "Land of Hope and Dreams" used "This Train" as both a starting point and a departure point
seems duplicative to me; aren't "starting point" and "departure point" the same thing? Or is there some sort of special idiomatic meaning for them within music? If the latter, perhaps we could explain what the difference is. Failing that, i may well circle back at some point and refine the sentence. Happy days ~ LindsayHello 11:06, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Indigo Girls' This Train Revised
[edit]The Indigo Girls sing a song called "This Train Revised" on their album Swamp Ophelia. It includes the line "this train is bound for glory", but it is about trains carrying Nazi's victims to concentration camps. It is written by Amy Elizabeth Ray.
I'm going to remove Indigo Girls from the page. If their song is related to the song on this page, someone can re-add them with an explanation.
Origin of the tune
[edit]The tune of this song and Crawdad song are taken from "You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down" composed by famous ragtime pianist Ben Harney in 1895. It is documented in sheet music 27 years before there is any mention of "This Train" or "Crawdad Song" by folklorists or musicians. Harney's song itself seems to be modelled on the Scottish folk song "Frog went a-courting" first documented in 1549 though likely much older. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-18949-18 (talk) 01:22, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- That may be true, but without a reliable source, we cannot add that to the article. WP:RS Marcus Markup (talk) 01:46, 27 March 2026 (UTC)