Текст песни: The Original Original Honky Tonk Night Train Blues + перевод

I’m the original honky tonk train

I’m the one that you see when you’re watching a western

That’s me chugging by

Of the ones that you see in the films I’m the best 'un

I’ll tell you why

'Cause no other loco can ever compare

With the places I’ve been 'cause I’ve been everywhere

And I never once stopped for a moment of restin'

And if my fire’s burning properly the hot air oughta

Rise and go along a lot of tubes

That are surrounded by water in the boiler till eventually it moves

On down the engine’s aorta out to the funnel where the cloud of smoke exudes

And now the hot air in the tubes has made the water in the boiler turn to steam

-- hot hot hot

The steam also rises and collects inside that large symbolic dome at the top

Top top

But if you think that now the steam is just as hot as it is gonna get you’re

wrong

'cause it’s not not not

Because this is where the driver opens up the regulator valve handle --

The steam becomes alive again and goes back through the boiler or can

Which I call it only 'cause I’ve a shortage of rhymes ending in -an

So having been through the superheater tubes the steam is hotter than ever

It was before the heat is more you may be sure the steam now

Passes on into the piston cylinder and pushes the piston for-

Wards and backwards by means of valves which reciprocate in alternation

According to simple mechanical law

The piston then pushes connecting rods fixed to the wheels

That are set on the rails

But that’s not the end of the story 'cause then all that steam

As you will have seen

Is blown out as exhaust through the funnel whence it can expire

Thereby increasing the draught of the fire

So now apart from some rather superfluous detail which doubtless will seem to

you

Obvious, hardly worth saying

The story’s over in its basic essentials -- the rest is merely overlaying

What you can see for yourself quite easily although I would just like to

mention the

Thing on the front that always comes in handy when you want to catch cows

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