This Train (Bound for Glory)

Visto che l'ho citata, e giusto per vederne l'evoluzione nel tempo e nelle diverse versioni originali, posterei il testo di "This Train" di Sister Rosetta Tharpe, canzone da lei composta sul finire degli anni '30 e presente sulla compilation della MCA/Decca "The Gospel of the Blues" (2003)...

THIS TRAIN

This train is a clean train, you know this train
This train is a clean train, I said this train
This train is a clean train
Everybody's riding it in Jesus' name
This train is a clean train, I said this train

This train has left the station, you know this train
This train has left the station, I said this train
This train has left the station
This train takes on every nation
'Cause this train is a clean train, I said this train

It's the prettiest train I ever have seen, this train
It's the prettiest train I ever have seen, oh this train
It's the prettiest train I ever have seen
But if you want to ride you better get redeemed
Because this train is a clean train, I said this train

Hey, this train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, I said this train
Hey, this train is bound for glory
Everybody riding her must be holy
'Cause this train is a clean train, I said this train

This train don't pull no jokers, I said this train
This train don't pull no jokers, uh-uh this train
Hey, this train don't pull no jokers
No tobacco chewers and no cigar smokers
'Cause this train is a clean train, I said this train

This train is a clean train, I said this train
This train is a clean train, I said this train
This train is a clean train
Everybody ride it in Jesus' name
'Cause this train is a clean train, I said this train

Hey, this train is a clean train, I said this train...

Traduzione di Roberto Malfatti della versione di Big Bill Broonzy.

La versione italiana di Antonello Cacciotto