Uploaded by rayflute on May 19, 2008
Originally released as a single on Columbia in May 1966. It is based on an earlier song of hers, one entitled "17 Pink Sugar Elephants". The melody and chord structure are near identical:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yz8_LMOK4HA
The song featured in an American advert for Reebok/NFL, entitled "Join the Migration":
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W-mmGIIE3xk
The song also features in the Samsung Smart TV advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vf9UQnCjDc
Many folk wish to know the lyrics to the song, so here they are:
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Train Song (Bunyan/Clayre)
Travelling north, travelling north to find you
Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes
Don't even know what I'll say when find you
Call out your name love, dont be surprised
It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
Nothing at all in my head to say to you
Only the beat of the train I'm on
Nothing I've learnt all my life on the way to you
Only our love that's over and gone
It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
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Her other well-known song is "Diamond Day" from 1970:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B3W4sLS67oI
This song became familiar in the UK, thanks to a most peculiar T-Mobile ad:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR4K-QFCqk
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Kartal Gol Gol Gol
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I prefer the original rather than Feist's. Vashti's vocals are more haunting. But to each his own.
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Hmm. I have a boner.
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I like Ben Gibbard and Fiest's version WAAAAAY better -_- Good music. Sometimes covers are better than the original.
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@TheHeadShamen why u come over here just to complain? pff if u dont like this song, u shouldn't be searching it's title on youtube.
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thank you samsung smart tv :D
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@sarhantheman have it :D
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hi marwan ana shereen looool
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sarhantheman 1 week ago 14
This song is on repeat all day at my work. A 2.17 minute song, 9 hours a day, 5 days a week!!! Fucking hate it with a passion. I challenge any of you lovers of it to listen to it 1244 times every week. Train accidents in the news actually make me happy, well, not really.
TheHeadShamen 2 months ago 6