Originally released as a single on Columbia in May 1966. It is based on an earlier song of hers, one entitled "17 Pink Sugar Elephants". The melody and chord structure are near identical: uk.youtube.com The song featured in an American advert for Reebok/NFL, entitled "Join the Migration": uk.youtube.com The song also features in the Samsung Smart TV advert: www.youtube.com Many folk wish to know the lyrics to the song, so here they are: --------------------------- Train Song (Bunyan/Clayre) Travelling north, travelling north to find you Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes Don't even know what I'll say when find you Call out your name love, dont be surprised It's so many miles and so long since I've met you Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you But suddenly now I know where I belong It's many hundred miles and it won't be long It wont be long It wont be long It wont be long Nothing at all in my head to say to you Only the beat of the train I'm on Nothing I've learnt all my life on the way to you Only our love that's over and gone It's so many miles and so long since I've met you Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you But suddenly now I know where I belong It's many hundred miles and it won't be long It wont be long It wont be long It wont be long --------------------------- Her other well-known song is "Diamond Day" from 1970: uk.youtube.com This song became familiar in the UK, thanks to a most peculiar T-Mobile ad: uk.youtube.com
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