We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

D Train

from A Picture by Allan Thomas

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

about

D Train' is a shuffle in E major about the subway line I would ride late at night from Manhattan to my folk's home in Brooklyn after gigging in Grenwich Village. How you would bump into characters of every stripe, and you never know what might befall you. It was one of the very few times I modulated key in an original song. I love the classic R & B tenor sax solo work of NYC session palyer Buddy Lucas here on this track.

lyrics

D Train

words & music - Allan Thomas


Rusty wheels turnin' under New York town
Step in quick for the door knock you down
We're going ridin' on a subway
Bound for Brooklyn tonight
Hold on

Keep your eyes wide open
Watch the people watching you
It's thirty-cents admission
The show's always new
We're going ridin' on the D train
Bound for Brooklyn tonight
And here's some advice

Don't you let the five-o'clock rush make mush out of you
And make sure that you listen to the stories
That the Drunk man has got for you
Ridin' on the D Train's like dreaming in your sleep
Anything might happen anyone might leap
We're going ridin' on the D train
Bound for Brooklyn tonight
Jack why don't you take a ride

When she keeps you waitin'
You will frown down the track
But when you hear her heartbeat a hummin'
You will hum right back
We're going ridin' on the D train
Bound for Brooklyn tonight
You better hold on


© 1971 Bleu Disque Music - ASCAP

credits

from A Picture, track released January 1, 1971
Allan Thomas - vocals & acoustic guitar
Jack Lee - electric guitar
Steve Edelman - bass
Bill 'Fuzz' Weicht - drums
Buddy Lucas - tenor sax solo

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Allan Thomas Hanalei, Hawaii

Aloha and welcome to my Bandcamp Music Store home page. Here you can listen to full-length samples of all seven Allan Thomas albums and three singles. Also to be found are credits, photos, stories and lyrics for all songs. Dig in...

contact / help

Contact Allan Thomas

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Allan Thomas, you may also like: