Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"I Like Train Songs”
Written by Billy Strings (Apostol Publishing, BMI; administered by: Songs of Tuckaway Music, BMI and Sony Tree Publishing), Aaron Allen (Joy Zone, ASCAP) and Jon Weisberger (Use Your Words Music, BMI and Asheville Music Publishing, BMI)

LYRICS
Some folks are writin’ love songs and songs about a girl
Some are writin’ all about the endin’ of the world
Some like songs of happiness and some of times of pain
You can keep em’ all, I like my songs about a train

I’m on a choo choo rollin'
Never coming back
On the choo choo rollin'
That’s my kind of track

Well I don’t mind a story of a man that’s been through hell
If he’s an engineer and reachin’ up to ring the bell
I can take a sacred song that’s serious and slow
As long as in between the lines I hear the whistle blow

I’m on a choo choo rollin’
Never coming back
On the choo choo rollin’
That’s my kind of track

Well I heard about a man whose broken heart was torn in two
And everybody's got a protest song for you know who
Well you can keep them barroom ditties stuck inside your brain
The only thing that clears em’ out is songs about a train

I’m on a choo choo rollin’
Never coming back
On the choo choo rollin’
That’s my kind of track

You can spike the football or you can spike the punch
Burn right through your paycheck on a four martini lunch
Pourin’ top shelf liquor might as well be cheap champagne
That don’t wet my whistle like a song about a train

I’m on a choo choo rollin’
Never coming back
On the choo choo rollin’
That’s my kind of track

I could live without a stanza bout’ some roses being red
And violets are just flowers when they’re shriveled up and dead
Well I need more murder ballad like a bullet to the brain
But I still make my livin’ singin’ songs about a train

I’m on a choo choo rollin’
Never coming back
On the choo choo rollin’
That’s my kind of track

I’m on that choo choo rollin’
Never coming back
On a choo choo rollin’
That’s my kind of track

Performed by
Billy Strings: Vocals, Guitar
Billy Failing: Banjo
Royal Masat: Bass
Jarrod Walker: Mandolin
Alex Hargreaves: Fiddle
Tim O’Brien: Backing Vocals

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