Memory Train

from KINDRED WAY VOL. 2 by Jon Strider

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(REVIEW)
"....Strider is on the right track with this “Memory Train”. Extra points for production imagination.”
--Robert K. Oermann, Music Row Magazine, Nashville, Tennessee, April 8, 1995

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MEMORY TRAIN
(Strider/Burch)
6am and the world’s just stirring
He’s been up a good part of the night
Coffee’s up, but it ain’t done perkin’
Heavy eyes can’t read, you know it’s a fight

What they write about, don’t interest him much
Not much readin’ there, no surprise

(spoken): "So he sits alone by the window to hear the train comin’ down the line."

Memory Train, it’s a-comin’ down the track
Memory Train, all aboard, no turnin’ back
Everybody knows it’s time to go
When you hear the whistle blow
On the Memory Train

Sun’s straight up, time to head on over
Grab a bite at the corner cafe
Sittin’ at the counter, flippin’ through the menu
Already knows what he'll have, and what he will pay

About a mile from town, the 12:08's comin’ round
Traffic waits for crossin’ gates to rise

(Spoken): "So he walks to the door, to listen once more
For the train comin’ down the line."

Memory Train, it’s a-comin’ down the track
Memory Train, all aboard, no turnin’ back
Everybody knows it’s time to go
When you hear the whistle blow
On the Memory Train

(Instrumental solos: piano - Jon Strider / harmonica - Hurricane Jake)

Shadows long and the sun is fallin’
Tomorrow waits around the bend
House on the hill fades away
Still the night, a quiet friend

Train of time, movin’ down the line
Every man along for the ride

So he walks coat in hand into the night
All alone there he stands and waits for the light
of the train, far away, a-burnin’ so bright___

(spoken by Ben Farish): "All Aboard!"

Memory Train, it’s a-comin’ down the track
Memory Train, all aboard, no turnin’ back
Everybody knows it’s time to go
When you hear the whistle blow
On the Memory Train

Memory Train, it’s a-comin’ down the track
Memory Train, all aboard, no turnin’ back
Everybody knows it’s time to go
When you hear the whistle blow
On the Memory Train

Memory Train, ooo - ooo
Memory Train, ahh - ahh
Oh, oh, oh ,oh

Memory Train, ooo - ooo
Memory Train, ahh - ahh
Oh, oh, oh ,oh

©1994 Pacific Songworks/Kindred Way Music, BMI
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

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from KINDRED WAY VOL. 2, released January 1, 1995
Produced, arranged and recorded by Jon Strider at Pacific Songworks/Intermix, Los Angeles, California
Words by Walter Burch and Jon Strider / Music by Jon Strider
Mixed by Richard Kaplan and Chuck Johnson at Indigo Ranch, Malibu
Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood
MUSICIANS:
Taras Prodaniuk, bass
David Raven, drums
Steve Chrismar, electric and acoustic guitar
Jon Strider, lead vocal, piano and additional acoustic guitar
T. Benson Farish, "All Aboard"
Hurricane Jake, harmonica
Background vocals: Skyler Jett, Claytoven Richardson, Laura Ahlstrand, Sandy Griffith
Drawing and graphic design by Janice Durand

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Jon Strider Malmö, Sweden

Performing singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from California - 9 solo CD's on New Sky Records - Music style: "Retro rocking' Country with a Blues&Rhythm twist" and "Rhythm n' Folk" - Career migration track: SF Bay Area to L.A., through Nashville & Austin to Sweden, (for19 years) and back... ... more

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