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Terry Allen — New Delhi Freight Train
Album: The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's greatest missed hits)
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Released: 1976
Length: 6:33
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Some people think that I must be crazy
But my real name is just Jesse James
An I left them half-crocked, hard-knocks of black rock county
Just to ride on that New Delhi Train
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my love behind
Yeah I left my love behind
Yeah I'm just a country boy without angels
ahhh just a country boy without gold
An I been to silver cities load of rainbows
Where I pillaged and I killed and I stole
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my life behind
Yeah I left my life behind
Then I killed a man named smilin Jordan (Jeer-dun)
Yeah I killed him with one of my guns
And I knew that I had did what I had not ought to
But I welcomed the run from what I'd done
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my guns behind
Yeah I left my guns behind
(repeat)
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Love the dog posing on the LP cover
Posted 1 month ago by drews    [ Reply ]
wtf?

Posted 14 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
The only really good part of this song is the slide guitar.  But it's not enough to save it.
Posted 14 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
If this was one of his "missed" hits, I don't think I'd want to hear what one of his real hits was.  Sorry.


Posted 14 years ago by eddief    [ Reply ]
Will it please end?
Posted 14 years ago by grungepuppy    [ Reply ]
I think that will pretty much do me for the rest of my life.  Next.  
Posted 14 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
scraig wrote:
That song made me want to put a shotgun in my mouth.
Silly wabbit!

Someone else puts the shotgun in your mouth.

Posted 14 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]

That song made me want to put a shotgun in my mouth.
Posted 14 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
j7 wrote:
minus 1, and the guy looks like a total tool.
Fascinating. Mind sharing your criteria? Race? Age? Proximity to taxidermy? Always looking to learn something!

Some uninteresting facts about this "total tool":
Trained as an architect, he received a B.F.A. from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His art has been supported by three NEA grants and a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His work Trees (the music, literary and third trees) is installed on the campus of the University of California San Diego as part of the Stuart Collection. His artwork has been featured at the L.A. Louver art gallery in Venice, California.Terry Allen is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA. His works are represented in the collections of many international museums including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, l'Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Musee Saint Pierre, Lyon, France, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

Terry Allen recorded eight albums during the years 1979 to 2004 and collaborated with David Byrne on the soundtrack for Byrne's movie True Stories. Allen's music is far from traditional. A quote attributed to Allen states: "People tell me it's country music, and I ask, 'Which country?'" Allmusic.com calls his 1979 release, Lubbock (On Everything), "one of the finest country albums of all time" and a progenitor of the alt-country movement.



Posted 14 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]

Lowell, is that you?


Posted 14 years ago by tonypf    [ Reply ]
Interesting mixture of old-style C&W songwriting and sitar work. Not a big fav to me, but it did catch my ear.

Posted 14 years ago by Dirktooth    [ Reply ]
Wow, made me look!
Posted 14 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
LOVED THIS BILL! It's always nice to throw a little quirk into the mix.Thanks.
Posted 14 years ago by figi    [ Reply ]
Musically, this probably fell out the business end of a caboose.

Posted 14 years ago by bkrontz    [ Reply ]
minus 1, and the guy looks like a total tool.
Posted 15 years ago by j7    [ Reply ]
1
Posted 15 years ago by t00lur    [ Reply ]
3 for the song, 10 for the album cover.
Posted 15 years ago by Ag3nt0rang3    [ Reply ]
Has very similar chord progressions as the song 1951 Vincent, which is a good thing!{#Clap}
Posted 15 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
LOL...{#Exclaim}
Posted 15 years ago by CyberCoyote    [ Reply ]
*sigh*
Posted 15 years ago by Pieter    [ Reply ]
Pretty much hated the song, but have to say that I'm loving the album cover and now feeling bad about my rating!

He looks like he woke up planning to go to a Lebowski-fest but decided to just stay in and get wasted instead.

Righteous. Dude.
Posted 15 years ago by Akaiila    [ Reply ]
I like the Little Feat version, this one is weird, in a 'sorta ok' way.
Posted 15 years ago by etcarroll    [ Reply ]
Superb English grammar, thar boy!   Great stuff.
Posted 15 years ago by lawman    [ Reply ]
Can I have what he's drinking?
Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
This is weird.
Posted 15 years ago by ugly    [ Reply ]
 jagdriver wrote:
Meh

And WHO chose that cover shot?????
 
LMAO probably Terry, if anybody does things his way it would be Terry Allen. He is a artist of many talents. I was lucky enuff to stumble on his first work Juarez which may be my favorite to this day but all of his music is needless to say damn interesting.Him and The Panhandle Mystery Band have a bunch of stuff to sample. His art is in high demand and he and his wife wrote several plays. Only on RP would ya hear Terry Allen and a couple of his friends Joe Ely and Robert Earl Keen, who was a roomate of Lyle Lovett at one time TY again Bill

Posted 15 years ago by stkman    [ Reply ]
Meh

And WHO chose that cover shot?????
Posted 15 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
I like a lot of Terry's stuff, but "Give Me a Ride to Heaven" is my favorite. {#Cowboy}
Posted 15 years ago by toterola    [ Reply ]
Not quite like Little Feat but not bad non the less. For what it's worth, T.A. does two different versions of this song.
Posted 16 years ago by ronnychickenpanz    [ Reply ]
Worst album cover photo ever?
Posted 16 years ago by Derecho    [ Reply ]
Good Lord, this is the crappiest piece of noise I've heard here in a while.  'Course there was a buttload of songs throughout the day that really (uncharacteristically) sukcked, too.  Must be mercy killing day or sumthin.
Posted 16 years ago by shutter    [ Reply ]
New jelly freight train?  I like it!
Posted 16 years ago by timc    [ Reply ]
New to me. It's a toe tapper so I'm happy with it. Thanks.
Posted 16 years ago by Ericac    [ Reply ]
"Tickets please! Tickets please!" "What the F***!!!"
Posted 16 years ago by big_gare    [ Reply ]
driver8 wrote:
Oh my LORD!
Posted 16 years ago by tnt_thomas    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by driver8    [ Reply ]
OK BIll. You've got 59 songs with Train in the title. From Phish to Marley. You like playing with your train set, or something?
Posted 18 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
radiohead sux
Posted 18 years ago by slartibart_O    [ Reply ]
well that was fun...and me thinks the album cover is hilarious !
Posted 18 years ago by peyotecoyote    [ Reply ]
are we "going somewhere" with this set? I've got to catch the 5:15!!!!
Posted 18 years ago by Farquwaar    [ Reply ]
alfa3 wrote:
Interesting, But I have to say I prefer Little Feat, for that matter lots more by Little Feat would be great!
Here, here...
Posted 18 years ago by Dylan76    [ Reply ]
WOW! This actually sucks worse than one of his other 'Greatest Missed Hits'-----> "Big 'Ol White Boys"......imagine that! = 1....enjoy that rise-N-shine cup of Jack-N-Coke incognito while hugging your stuffed coyote friend there Terry.....
Posted 18 years ago by crowhog2000    [ Reply ]
That's funny. And pretty good musically. Album cover & title bumps it up a notch. "The silent majority" ... is the dead.
Posted 18 years ago by quesarah    [ Reply ]
I like this, but I'd prefer Little Feat's original.
Posted 18 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
Now That... is funny!
Posted 18 years ago by MikeCloud    [ Reply ]
weird album cover, is he a taxidermist too?
Posted 18 years ago by rachlan    [ Reply ]
As this began, I thought it was a cover of a great Feat\'s tune. Based on other comments here, I found some additional info. on Terry Allen. Thanks for the exposure and the horizon expanding song.
Posted 22 years ago by tonypf    [ Reply ]
Interesting, But I have to say I prefer Little Feat, for that matter lots more by Little Feat would be great!
Posted 22 years ago by alfa3    [ Reply ]
Well, I think it\'s a decent cover, almost as good as the original. :roll:
Posted 22 years ago by Cy    [ Reply ]