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"Gas Pedal" is a song recorded by South Korean boy group Cravity for their first studio album, The Awakening: Written in the Stars. It was released as the group's lead single on August 19, 2021, by Starship Entertainment in conjunction with the studio album.
"Slow Train" is a song by British duo Flanders and Swann, written in July 1963. [1] It laments the closure of railway stations and lines brought about by the Beeching cuts in the 1960s, and also the passing of a way of life. [2] Written by Swann in F Major, its slow 6/8 rhythm evokes a steam train slowing and finally stopping.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle [1] period of the 1950s and 1960s.
"Slow Train" has an earlier genesis than most of the songs on Slow Train Coming.It began life as an instrumental Dylan used to warm up with on tour in late 1978. [3] A recording of the song with some lyrics exists from a soundcheck of a December 2, 1978 show in Nashville, Tennessee, although only the chorus and a few lines from that version were retained on the ultimate recording. [4]
"Casey Jones" is about a railroad engineer who is on the verge of a train wreck due to his train going too fast, a sleeping switch man, and another train being on the same track and headed for him. Jones is described as being "high on cocaine " (the song even makes a double entendre of advising Jones to "watch his speed").
The Chad Mitchell Trio song "Super Skier", written by Bob Gibson, used the tune and although its lyrics have nothing to do with subways, ends with a call to "get Charlie off the MTA". Boston-based punk rock band Dropkick Murphys wrote a variation, Skinhead on the MBTA , with a skinhead in place of Charlie, on their 1998 album Do or Die .
Variously described as a blues, R&B or rock number, the song describes a steam train that has outlived its usefulness and has since moved to a museum. Recorded two months after steam trains were retired from passenger service in the UK, the song relates to Village Green 's themes of preservation and the reconciling of past and present.