Name: Midnight Train
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: This song has been ‘on ice’ since Calum was 16 years old. It is not about trains. See if you can figure it out.

Midnight Train

from Health and Safety by Man's Ruin

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£1 GBP or more
Buy the Full Digital Album
Health and Safety CD album
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Old style "CD" in lovely digipack designed by Somhairle Macdonald (www.somhairle.co.uk)

Includes unlimited streaming of Health and Safety via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

about

This song has been ‘on ice’ since Calum was 16 years old. It is not about trains. See if you can figure it out.

lyrics

I’ve been working on a midnight train, all the hot long day
Nose to the grindstone, work my fingers to the bone, lord that midnight train
Those wheels are spinning off the track, her engine’s burning like a flame, wheels of fortune turn my way
We’re chugging along as we’re singing this song, all aboard the midnight train

Singing Choo-choo all day long
Singing amen lord for making right so wrong

Yesterday morning we were singing the blues, singing all the hot long day
We were running out of coal with every steam that she blew, good lord that midnight train
Well we were huffing, we were puffing we were tearing down the line, feel the blood course through my veins
Unscrew the jack we’ll hit Glasgow tonight, bringing home that midnight train

Singing choo-choo all day long
Singing amen lord for making right so wrong

Huffing, puffing, tearing the line now
Huffing, puffing tearing the line now
Huffing, puffing tearing the line now
Huffing, puffing, tearing down the line now…etc

credits

from Health and Safety, released October 1, 2011
Written by: Calum Maccrimmon
Arranged: Man's Ruin

license

about

Man's Ruin Glasgow, UK

Man’s Ruin comprise five of Scotland’s leading exponents of experimental folk music. These cross-genre folk rebels have earned international recognition for their soul-twisting interpretations of modern folk and roots music on the contemporary stage. Whether it be folk, funk, rock or electronica they seamlessly blend styles through careful and considered musical craft work. ... more