List of Train Songs - D

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• "Daddy Was a Railroad Man" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie
• "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Utah Phillips) by John Denver, Joe Glazer, Utah Phillips,
• "Danville Girl" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer
• "Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning) by David Bromberg, Gene Clark, J.D. Crowe, Grateful Dead, David Grisman, Aubrey Haynie, Benny Martin, Del McCoury, Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, The Seldom Scene, Jimmie Skinner, Ralph Stanley, The String Cheese Incident, Claire Tomlinson, Mac Wiseman
• "Daughter of A Railroad Man" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash
• "Davy's Train Blues" (Alexis Korner, Davey Graham) by Alexis Korner & Davey Graham
• "Daybreak Express" (Duke Ellington) by John Barry, Duke Ellington
• "Day the Train Jumped the Tracks" (Michael Carmody) by Split Lip Rayfield
• "Day We Caught the Train, The" by Ocean Colour Scene
• "De Gospel Train", see "Gospel Train"
• "Death's Black Train Is Comin'" by Rev. J. M. Gates, 1926
• "Desert Moon" (Dennis DeYoung) by Dennis DeYoung
• "Desperados Waiting for a Train" (Guy Clark) by Bobby Bare, Mark Chesnutt, Guy Clark, David Allen Coe, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Nanci Griffith, The Highwaymen, Slim Pickens, Tom Rush, Martin Simpson, Jerry Jeff Walker
• "Destination Anywhere" by The Marvelettes, The Commitments (from the film soundtrack)
• "Destination Victoria Station" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash
• "Detroit Special" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy
• "Devil's Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Roy Acuff, Cliff Carlisle, Mark Erelli (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree); Crooked Fingers (Crooked Fingers); Eric Sardinas (Eric Sardinas)
• "Die Reise (The Journey)" (Herbert Distel), electro-acoustic composition incorporating tape modulations, wind machines and synthesizers
• "Different Trains" (Steve Reich) by Steve Reich
• "Diplomat, The" by Johnny Cash
• "Distant Train" by The Seldom Scene
• "Dixie Flyer", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Gene Clark (Thomas Jefferson Kaye), Lester Flatt (Marty Stuart), Randy Newman (Randy Newman), Muggsy Spanier (Walter Melrose)
• "Dixie Flyer Blues" (Bessie Smith) by Bessie Smith
• "Do the Choo-Choo" (Gamble and Huff) by Archie Bell & the Drells
• "Doggone That Train" (Jimmy Davis) by Hank Snow
• "Don't Miss That Train" (Sister Wynona Carr) by Sister Wynona Carr, Edwin Hawkins, Joe Liggins, Louisiana Red
• "Don't Sleep in the Subway" (Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent) by Petula Clark
• "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
• "Dorion Crossing"(Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn
• "Down Bound Train" (Chuck Berry) by Chuck Berry
• "Down by the Station" (Slim Gaillard) by Perry Como], Four Preps, Harry James
• "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" (Paul Weller) by The Jam
• "Down There by the Train" (Tom Waits) by Johnny Cash, Tom Waits
• "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow" (Harry Von Tilzer, Andrew B. Sterling), published 1900
• "Downbound Train" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen
• "Downtown Train" (Tom Waits) by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Everything but the Girl, Tom Russell Band, Bob Seger, Patty Smyth, Rod Stewart, Tom Waits
• "Draize Train" by The Smiths
• "Dream Train" (Charles Newman, Billy Baskette) by Guy Lombardo
• "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (attributed to Thomas F. Casey), published 1888, by Arthur Collins, The Easy Riders, George J. Gaskin, Bob Gibson, Cisco Houston, Burl Ives, Frank Luther, Chubby Parker, Peerless Quartet, Dan W. Quinn, Earl Robinson, Win Stracke, The Tarriers, The Tradewinds, The Weavers
• "Driving the Last Spike" (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford) by Genesis
• "Driver 8" (Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck) by R.E.M.
• "Drug Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: The Cramps (Lux Interior, Rorscach), Social Distortion (Mike Ness)
• "Dulcimer" (David Mallett) by David Mallett
• "Dummy Line, The" (Unknown, earliest date 1925) by Michael Cooney, Cindy Mangsen & Anne Hills, Joe Hickerson, Session Americana
• "Duquesne Whistle" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan
• "Dying Hobo" by Joe Glazer, Frank Hutchison, Doc Watson