Vashti Bunyan - Train Song

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Published by Ray Murray at 05/19/2008 10:59 Like 8,049 Dislike 66
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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Latest comments

  1. XO Makaveli, at 06/20/2013 08:38, says:
    nice!!
  2. RandHaf, at 06/13/2013 03:06, says:
    samsung TV
  3. Guilty Spark, at 06/05/2013 18:38, says:
    the story-line of this song are simmilar to my love story....
  4. npbelly, at 06/03/2013 17:02, says:
    Yeh -- what he said. I think...uh, for now...
  5. metamorphosis67, at 06/03/2013 16:51, says:
    Too bad. Now you'll have the images from that idiotic commercial for brainwashing machines and new-world-order multiculturalist bullshit propaganda forever embedded in your head mixed with a hippie song written in 1966 that has absolutely nothing to do with it and had to wait 40 plus years in obscurity before finally selling out to the establishment monster for filthy money.
  6. musgrave68, at 05/23/2013 05:36, says:
    a thing of beauty is a joy forever...
  7. uknowiamgreat, at 05/21/2013 19:30, says:
    how can anybody give this song thumbs down? what is it about that makes u give it negative review?
  8. TBone2809, at 05/18/2013 19:45, says:
    Samsung smart tv commercial brought me here
  9. Rüzgar Emiroğlu, at 04/23/2013 16:19, says:
    65 people who doesnt have smart tv
  10. Gob Bluth, at 04/23/2013 01:15, says:
    Perfect Song!
  11. Cherbonnet Antoine, at 04/22/2013 17:15, says:
    nice !
  12. carmelauke, at 04/18/2013 04:16, says:
    ill check it out
  13. Henry Flores Navarro, at 03/13/2013 11:40, says:
    Ritmo misterioso pero demasiado melodioso! 1966.
  14. Jerusha Pimentel, at 02/25/2013 15:41, says:
    Hey guys, check out my ukulele cover of this song, and tell me what you think!! :)
  15. kessesini13, at 02/20/2013 19:34, says:
    so beautiful...
  16. OdedFriedGaon, at 02/20/2013 12:22, says:
    fantastically beautiful.
  17. Polymnia Tsinti, at 02/14/2013 04:47, says:
    ....
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  19. Spritscake, at 02/04/2013 20:55, says:
    He's a male Vashti Bunyan is what you mean
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  21. mvtube007, at 01/26/2013 09:31, says:
    ''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''
  22. verotick2, at 01/24/2013 21:51, says:
    good song...!! i like............ <3 <3 <3
  23. leosperez1970, at 01/22/2013 23:43, says:
    hmmmmmmmmmmm some people just know like meeeeeeeeeeeeee
  24. Dakulala Kugilala, at 01/18/2013 17:41, says:
    takaharasuiko brought me here watch?v=m84XEX1dl8A 

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