Lyrics to
The Train Kept A-rollin’

This version of The Train Kept A-Rollin’ was released by Motorhead in 1977.

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I was alone, she was a woman,
I was a man, I never knew her name,
And she was pretty, New York City
I just gotta let it go,
The Train Kept A-Rollin’ all night long
Get it on, cheap little woman get it on, on my way
Get it on, cheap little woman get it on, on my way
The Train Kept A-Rollin’ all night long
The Train Kept A-Rollin’ all night long

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About Lyrics and The Train Kept A-Rollin’ by Motorhead

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Train Kept A-Rollin’, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Motorhead. Some of the lyrics to The Train Kept A-Rollin’ have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Motorhead and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Train Kept A-Rollin’ if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Train Kept A-Rollin’" means the words set to the music of The Train Kept A-Rollin’, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Motorhead. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Train Kept A-Rollin’ and the lyrics to The Train Kept A-Rollin’ are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Motorhead who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Train Kept A-Rollin’, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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