List of Train Songs - C

C

  • "C & O Excursion" by Frank Hutchison
  • "C & O Whistle by Fruit Jar Guzzlers
  • "Ca Roule" by CANO
  • "Caballito de Metal" Chilean folk song
  • "California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Gene Autry, Lefty Frizzell, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, Bill Monroe, Tim O'Brien, Webb Pierce, Jimmie Rodgers, The Seldom Scene, Doc & Merle Watson
  • "California Zephyr", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Duster Bennett & B.B. King (Duster Bennett); Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard (Jack Kerouac, Jay Farrar); Larry Sparks, Hank Williams (Hank Williams); Dolly Varden (Steve Dawson)
  • "Calling Trains" (Traditional) by Utah Phillips
  • "Can't Let Go" (Randy Weeks) by Shemekia Copeland, Lucinda Williams
  • "Can't You See" (Toy Caldwell) by The Marshall Tucker Band
  • "Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff) by George Hamilton IV, Gordon Lightfoot, Hank Snow
  • "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (Gordon Lightfoot) by Gordon Lightfoot
  • "Cannonball Blues" (Traditional), also recorded as "Cannonball", by June Carter Cash, John Cohen, The Dillards, The Carter Family, The Dillards, Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan, Flatt & Scruggs, Frank Hutchison, Grandpa Jones, Furry Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton, Utah Phillips, The Seldom Scene
  • "Carolina Blues" (Chan Kinchla, John Popper) by Blues Traveler
  • "Carrollton March, The" (Arthur Clifton), first US train song, copyrighted July 1, 1828
  • "Casey Jones" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) by Grateful Dead, Wailing Souls, Warren Zevon & David Lindley
  • "Casey Jones" (copyrighted by Eddie Newton, T. Lawrence Seibert, attributed to Wallace Saunders) by Sidney Bechet, Fiddlin' John Carson, Johnny Cash, Vernon Dalhart, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Mississippi John Hurt, "Spider John" Koerner, Furry Lewis, The New Christy Minstrels, The Sons of the Pioneers, Spike Jones, Tex Ritter, Tom Russell, Pete Seeger
  • "Casey Jones, the Union Scab" by Almanac Singers, Joe Glazer, Joe Hill, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger
  • "Casey Junior" from the Dumbo soundtrack
  • "Casey's Last Ride" (Kris Kristofferson) by Kris Kristofferson, John Denver, Waylon Jennings, Euson, Peter Rowan, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, June Tabor
  • "Cash" by Johnny Cash
  • "Cattail Down"(MewithoutYou) by MewithoutYou
  • "Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train, The" (W. H. Gove), broadside published before 1867
  • "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) by Beegie Adair, The Andrews Sisters, Ray Anthony, Asleep at the Wheel, BBC Big Band, Tex Beneke, George Benson, John Bunch, Cab Calloway, Caravelli, Regina Carter, Ray Charles, Harry Connick, Jr., Ray Conniff, Floyd Cramer, Ernie Fields, Stephane Grappelli & Marc Fosset, Bill Haley & His Comets, John Hammond, Jr., The Harmonizing Four, Harmony Grass, Harpers Bizarre, Ted Heath, Betty Johnson, Susannah McCorkle, Ray McKinley, Big Miller, Glenn Miller, Carmen Miranda, Richard Perlmutter, Oscar Peterson, Elvis Presley, Spike Robinson, Harry Roy, Jan Savitt, The Shadows, Hank Snow, Teddy Stauffer, Dave Taylor, Claude Thornhill, The Tornados, Guy Van Duser
  • "Cherokee Fiddle" (Michael Martin Murphy) by Merle Haggard, Johnny Lee, Michael Martin Murphy
  • "Chickasaw Train Blues" (Minnie McCoy) by Memphis Minnie
  • "Chick-A-Choo Freight" (Bob Newman) by Bob Newman
  • "Chicken Train" (Steve Cash) by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  • "Child of the Railroad Engineer, The", also titled "The Two Lanterns" (Harry V. Neal, Gussie L. Davis, 1898)
  • "Chinacat Sunflower" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) by Grateful Dead
  • "Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)" (Bob Schafer, Dave Ringle, Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington, first recording (with The Washingtonians), 1924
  • "Choo Choo Blues" (Virginians) by Virginians, 1922
  • "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Vaughn Horton, Louis Jordan) by Asleep at the Wheel, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Clifton Chenier, Chris Daniels & The Kings, John Denver, Five Guys Named Moe, Foghat, The Four Knights, Bill Haley & the Comets, Quincy Jones, Bert Kaempfert, Louis Jordan, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, B.B. King, Jim Kweskin, The Manhattan Transfer, Charlie McCoy, Lucky Millinder, Kenny Roberts, Walter Roland, Widespread Depression Orchestra, Dan Zanes
  • "Choo Choo Comin'" by The Stanley Brothers
  • "Choo Choo Mama" by Ten Years After
  • "Christie Road" by Green Day
  • "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) by Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, John Denver, Steve Goodman, Arlo Guthrie, The Limeliters, Willie Nelson, Randy Scruggs, The Seldom Scene, Hank Snow
  • "Click Clack" (Don Van Vliet) by Captain Beefheart
  • "C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)" (C.C. Lemonhead, Michael Phillips, Jay Ski, B. White) by Quad City DJ's
  • "Coal Smoke, Valve Oil and Steam" (Fabor Robison, Grady Martin) by Johnny Horton
  • "Coal Train (Stimela)" (Hugh Masekela) by Hugh Masekela
  • "Cole Younger" (Traditional) by Dock Boggs, R.W. Hampton, Mary McCaslin, Michael Martin Murphey
  • "Come on to Nashville, Tennessee" (Walter Donaldson), published 1916
  • "Coming and the Going of the Trains, The" (Red Lane) by Merle Haggard
  • "Conjunction Junction" from Schoolhouse Rock!
  • "Coronation Scot" (Vivian Ellis) by Sidney Torch Orchestra
  • "Country Express" by Wayne Raney
  • "CPR Blues" by Robert Charlebois
  • "Crazy Engineer, The" (Joe Steen) by Hank Snow
  • "Crazy Hannah's Ridin' the Train" (Moe Tucker) by Moe Tucker
  • "Crazy Little Train of Love" (Eddie Miller) by Hank Snow
  • "Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley) by Pat Boone, Carbon Leaf, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Emm Gryner, Iron Horse, Living Loud, Ozzy Osbourne, Dee Snider, These Arms Are Snakes
  • "Crime of the D'Autremont Brothers, The" (Charles Johnson, Paul Johnson) by The Johnson Brothers, 1928
  • "Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back)" (James Brown) by Maceo & The Macks
  • "Crossing the Grand Sierras" Henry Clay Work by Hutchison Family Singers
  • "Cross-Tie Walker" (John Fogerty) by Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • "Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy" by Johnny Cash

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