List of Train Songs - B

B

  • "'B' Movie Box Car Blues" (Delbert McClinton) by Delbert McClinton
  • "B & O Blues", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton), Big Joe Turner (Big Joe Turner)
  • "B & O Blues, No. 2" (Gary Atkinson, Blind Willie McTell) by Blind Willie McTell
  • "Baby Likes to Rock It" (Steve Ripley, Walt Richmond) by The Tractors
  • "Back on the Train" (Tome Marshall) by Phish, Toots & the Maytals
  • "Back Up Train" (James, Rodgers) by Al Green
  • "Bad Luck Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) by Blind Lemon Jefferson
  • "Ballad of John Henry" (see "John Henry") by Jimmy Dean
  • "Banjoreno by Dixieland Jug Blowers
  • "Beat It on Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) by Jesse Fuller, The Grateful Dead, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
  • "Because He Was Only a Tramp" (Traditional), related to "The Tramp", published c. 1875–1880, by Wyzee Hamilton
  • "Bellerin' Plain" by Captain Beefheart
  • "Ben Dewberry's Final Run" (Andrew Jenkins) by Johnny Cash, Jerry Douglas, Steve Forbert, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow
  • "Betting on Trains" (Dan Messe) by Hem
  • "Between Trains", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Auburn Lull (Auburn Lull), Robbie Robertson (Robbie Robertson)
  • "Big Bear Train" (Jimmy Yancey) by Jimmy Yancey
  • "Big Black Train" (George Sherry) by Flatt & Scruggs
  • "Big City Train" (Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Eric Stefani, Gwen Stefani) by No Doubt
  • "Big Freight Train Carry Me Home" (Lecil Martin) by Boxcar Willie
  • "Big Payback, The" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen
  • "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) by Cannon's Jug Stompers (1928), Grateful Dead
  • "Big Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Black Country Communion (Glenn Hughes); Booker T. & the MG's, Steve Marriott, Conway Twitty (Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones, Lewis Steinberg, Steve Cropper); Brave Old World (Alan Bern, Traditional); Michael Pickett (Shawn Kellerman); Mike Watt (Tony Kinman); David Lee Roth (Joey Hunting, Terry Kilgore, David Lee Roth, Preston Sturges)
  • "Big Train (from Memphis)" (John Fogerty) by John Fogerty
  • "Big Wheels" (Clovis Yarnall) by Hank Snow
  • "Bill Groggin's Goat" (Traditional) by Sara Hickman
  • "Bill Mason" (Copyrighted by Roy Harvey, from poem by Bret Harte) by Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers (1927), Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers (1929)
  • "Billy Richardson's Last Ride" (Carson Robison, Cleburne C. Meeks) by Vernon Dalhart, 1926
  • "Black Cowboys" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen
  • "Black Girl" (variation of "The Longest Train"/"In the Pines") by Long John Baldry, Lonnie Donnegan, Marianne Faithful, Clifford Jordan, Journeymen, Lead Belly, Nirvana ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"), Pete Seeger, Josh White
  • "Black Train" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) by The Gun Club
  • "Black Train Blues, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White
  • "Blow That Lonesome Whistle Casey" by Al Dexter
  • "Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train" (Alton & Rabon Delmore) by The Delmore Brothers, Happy & Artie Traum
  • "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore) by The Delmore Brothers, Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen, Geoff & Maria Muldaur, The Tony Rice Unit, Marty Stuart, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Doc & Merle Watson Additional song with this title written and recorded by Danny Schmidt.
  • "Blue Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Grant Green, GRP All-Star Big Band, Dave Grusin, Conrad Herwig, J.J. Johnson, Byard Lancaster, Archie Shepp Quartet, Kenny Werner, Joe Lee Wilson (John Coltrane); Tripping Daisy (Tim DeLaughter & Tripping Daisy); Kenny Rogers (Pat Donohue); Billy Hancock (Billy Hancock); Antonio Carlos Jobim (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lô Borges & Ronaldo Bastos); Kevin Johnson (Kevin Johnson); Cibo Matto (Cibo Matto); Jimmy Page & Robert Plant (Charlie Jones, Jimmy Page, Michael K. Lee & Robert Plant); Maura O'Connell, Linda Ronstadt-Emmylou Harris-Dolly Parton (Jennifer Kimball & Tom Kimmel); Johnny Cash, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Marty Stuart (Billy Smith); Asian Kung-Fu Generation (Burū Torein)
  • "Blue Train (of the Heartbreak Line)" (John D. Loudermilk) by Pat Boone, Bjøro Håland, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, John D. Loudermilk
  • "Blue Train Blues" by Bukka White
  • "Blue Water Line" (Dora Graf, Martin Seligson) by The Brothers Four, Kingston Trio
  • "Blue Yodel No. 7" (Jimmie Rodgers, George Vaughn) by Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers
  • "Blues for Dixie" (O.W. Mayo) by Merle Haggard
  • "Bone Against Steel" by 38 Special
  • "Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train" (Richard Vance) by Mabel Scott
  • "Born on a Train" by The Magnetic Fields
  • "Bound for Glory", see "This Train Is Bound for Glory"
  • "Bound for Hell" (David J) by Love and Rockets,
  • "Boxcar Blues" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie, Maggie Jones
  • "Boxcar Willie" (Lecil Martin) by Roy Acuff, Boxcar Willie
  • "Boxcar's My Home" (Lloene Martin) by Boxcar Willie
  • "Boxcars" (Butch Hancock) by Joe Ely, Rosie Flores
  • "Brakeman's Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow
  • "Brave Engineer, The", three songs with this title: (Fred E. Reynolds), sheet music published 1891; Roy Harvey & North Carolina Ramblers (Composer unknown, "The Wreck on the C & O" set to tune of "The Wreck of the Old 97"), 1926; Cisco Houston (Cisco Houston), 1953
  • "Breakdown" (Dan Nakamura, Jack Johnson, Paul Huston) by Jack Johnson
  • "Bridal Train" (The Waifs) by The Waifs
  • "Bringin' in the Georgia Mail" (Fred Rose) by Norman Blake, Boothill Foot Tappers, Sam Bush, Floyd Cramer, Flatt & Scruggs, Don Gibson, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, Charlie Monroe, Reno & Smiley, Curly Seckler & The Nashville Grass, Mac Wiseman
  • "Broke Down Engine" (Blind Willie McTell) by Spencer Bohren, Jimmy Bowskill, Peter Case, Cephas & Wiggins, Tony McPhee, Bob Dylan, Paul Geremia, John Hammond, Jr., Ernie Hawkins, Colin Linden, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss, Dave "Snaker" Ray, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Martin Simpson, Johnny Winter
  • "Broken Down Tramp, The" (A. P. Carter, related to "The Tramp") by The Carter Family (1937)
  • "Broken Train" (Beck) by Beck
  • "Buddy Better Get on Down the Line" (Jane Bowers, Dave Guard) by The Kingston Trio
  • "Bull Doze Blues (Henry Thomas) by Henry Thomas
  • "Bummin Around" (Peter Graves) by Boxcar Willie
  • "Bullet Train", separate songs with this title: Wynton Marsalis, Judas Priest, Lee Ritenour, Art Taylor, The Ventures, The Ernie Watts Quartet
  • "Bummin' an Old Freight Train" by Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass
  • "Burma Train" (Martin Denny) by Martin Denny
  • "BW Railroad Blues" (Townes Van Zandt) by Townes Van Zandt
  • "Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo" (Don Reno, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith) by Joe Glazer, The New Lost City Ramblers

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