Текст песни Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger - Steam train, steam train...

Steam train steam train,
What’s your number what’s your name,
Collecting trains, a fine game,
I’ve got more than you.
Waiting for the Arpley train,
On the road to Cheadle,
Saw the local passing by,
Pop goes the diesel.

(Trainspotters’ voices…)

I’ve got a Cornish.
I’ve got a Lancastrian.
I’ve got the Prince of Wales.
My Dad’s a railwayman.

Steam train, steam train,
There goes a Super D,
Write the name and number down
Four oh one ninety-three.

Steam train, steam train, racing down the line,
Thirty wagons full of coal and lime,
Class eight, never late, she’ll arrive on time,
Four eight one double eight,
Pulling a lot of freight,
Steam train on the line.

Rattle rattle crash,
Watch the Corny pass,
Like a rocket flash
That’s the train for London.
(Trainspotters’ voices)

Chuggy chuggy chug,
Like a little bug
Crawling on a rug -
That’s the shunting bogey

Class A’s an express passenger train,
B’s an ordinary passenger train,
C’s an express once again,
Just for carrying parcels.
E and F are freights we know,
H is freight that travels slow,
K’s a local train that goes
Between the local stations.

(Trainspotters’ voices… shrieks as the train passes.)

City of Bristol, it came through last night. Came through last night. I’ve seen it twice now.

Steam train, steam train,
Carry me away with you,
Steam train, steam train,
Going to be a driver.

Going to be a driver.

I don’t know whether, if it’s in my blood or not because I, I… I remember when I were quite a bit of
a kid I used to go on the iron bridge there watching them until… course I were lucky you see in them
days they only used to have a couple o’ lads at 14 in this yard…

The joint of the driver’s steam brake pipe
Began to sweat a little,
By the time they were halfway up the hill
It was coming in a steady trickle.

As we were climbing up the bank, again this faint wisp of steam came from the union nut joint. So
we bound it with a couple of rags we got, er, we was going again like for… got about halfway up the
bank and then er, it came up in a spiral and we both came across having a look, like…