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Uploaded 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_LMO...

The song featured in an American advert for Reebok/NFL, entitled "Join the Migration":

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W-mmGII...

The song also features in the Samsung Smart TV advert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vf9UQ...

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=B3W4sLS...

This song became familiar in the UK, thanks to a most peculiar T-Mobile ad:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR4K-Q...

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  • viperchris34

    viperchris34 7 months ago

    It's female Nick Drake!

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  • OasisDNA

    OasisDNA 10 months ago

    This isn't just a song. This song breathes life.

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  • musgrave68

    musgrave68 2 days ago

    a thing of beauty is a joy forever...

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  • uknowiamgreat

    uknowiamgreat 3 days ago

    how can anybody give this song thumbs down? what is it about that makes u give it negative review?

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  • TBone2809

    TBone2809 6 days ago

    Samsung smart tv commercial brought me here

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  • Rüzgar Emiroğlu

    Rüzgar Emiroğlu 1 month ago

    65 people who doesnt have smart tv

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  • Gob Bluth

    Gob Bluth 1 month ago

    Perfect Song!

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  • Jimy Poster

    Jimy Poster 1 month ago

    nice !

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  • carmelauke

    carmelauke 1 month ago

    ill check it out

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    in reply to Jerusha Pimentel (Show the comment)
  • Henry Flores Navarro

    Henry Flores Navarro 2 months ago

    Ritmo misterioso pero demasiado melodioso! 1966.

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  • Jerusha Pimentel

    Jerusha Pimentel 2 months ago

    Hey guys, check out my ukulele cover of this song, and tell me what you think!! :)

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  • kessesini13

    kessesini13 3 months ago

    so beautiful...

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