Dean Reed - This Train

Dean Reed performing "This train" on BAM.An extract from the 1979 Soviet film "I wish you well"("Я желаю вам счастья").

"This Train"

This train is bound for glory this train,
this train is bound for glory this train,
this train is bound for glory, don't ride nothing but the righteous and the holy,
this train is bound for glory this train.

This train don't carry no gamblers this train,
this train don't carry no gamblers this train,
this train don't carry no gamblers, no big bar fliers no midnight
gamblers, this train is bound for glory this train.

This train is built for speed now this train,
this train is built for speed now this train,
this train is built for speed now, fastet train you ever did see now,
this train is bound for glory this train.

This train don't carry no liars this train,
this train don't carry no liars this train,
this train don't carry no liares, no hypocrits no big bar fliers,
this train is bound for glory this train.

This train is solid black now this train,
this train is solid black now this train,
this train is solid black now, where it carry you you don't come back now
this train is bound for glory this train.

This train don't pay no transportation,
this train don't pay no transportation,
this train don't pay no transportation, no Jim Crow no discrimination,
this train is bound for glory this train.

This train don't carry no white and black this train,
this train don't carry no white and black this train,
this train don't carry no white an black, every body ride it is treated just alike
this train is bound for glory this train.

This train is bound for glory this train,
this train is bound for glory this train,
this train is bound for glory, don't ride nothing but the righteous and the holy,
this train is bound for glory this train.

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[buratino321]

Eigentlich wollte ich mich hier bei Straccio für das Video bedanken. Dean Reed höre ich immer wieder gern. Danke!

[MrTamerlan1980]

only idiots hate Dean because of his views...he was just creative person and he was great!

[Mrdie]

@9P9T6 Well he killed himself in 1986 so... no.

I recommend you check out the film "The Red Elvis," you'd like it.

[9P9T6]

@Mrdie i had completely forgotten this video until your message resurfaced the memory of it. Bizarre on many levels. Somehow I imagine that Mr Read is still out there somewhere, making Soviet TV specials, riding a train in the middle of lonely Siberia, singing 60s civil rights era folk songs. The delusion of this figure, and the cynicism of his handlers are quite something

[Mrdie]

@9P9T6 Internally they obviously used him to placate youth who wanted to imitate the West ("Look! It's a guy who sings songs by famous Americans and can pass as a sex symbol! And he's a communist!"), but he was basically unknown outside of the Eastern Bloc.

I actually know a Uruguayan guy whose parents are Russians, and they remember him.

[9P9T6]

Just discovered this guy. I am sure this guy had enormous propaganda value for the Soviet and East German leadership. Thank goodness those days are over.

[SergeyYasny]

Dean Reed - soviet american! The best american!

[Tihokan]

Thank you, mr. Reed!

[franks2732]

A true man of freedom and an end to capitalist imperialism

[flyvid]

I've only got one description of Dead Reed - epic fail.

[buratino321]

@CZArschloch That rains runs only at 20 kmh if tied to the locomotives the russians bought in the CSSR. If they run at all, I still remember the notorious TATRA tramways... around 4 kmh, you were faster by feet...

By the way, ever seen the latest czech battle tank??? it has 4 reverse and 1 forward gear (only to use if they have the germans behind... hahahahaha na sledanou you czech pig