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People Get Ready (This Train)
Curtis Mayfield
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory,
Don’t hold much but the righteous and holy
This train is bound for glory, this train
People get ready, there's a train a-comin'
Don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the lord
This train don’t carry no liars, this train
This train don’t carry no liars, this train
This train don’t carry no liars,
no pretenders and no high-fliers
This train is bound for glory, this train
There ain’t no room for the greedy sinner
Hurt everybody just to save their soul
Take pity on those whose hope grows thinner
There ain’t no refuge from the judgmentl throne
Get on board (this train, this train, this train, this train, this train)
Get on board (this train, this train, this train, this train)
Get on board (this train, this train, this train, this train, this train)
Get on board (this train)
This train
Curtis Mayfield
This train is bound for glory, this train
This train is bound for glory,
Don’t hold much but the righteous and holy
This train is bound for glory, this train
Don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the lord
This train don’t carry no liars, this train
This train don’t carry no liars,
no pretenders and no high-fliers
This train is bound for glory, this train
Hurt everybody just to save their soul
Take pity on those whose hope grows thinner
There ain’t no refuge from the judgmentl throne
Get on board (this train, this train, this train, this train)
Get on board (this train, this train, this train, this train, this train)
Get on board (this train)
This train
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Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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We sang this in church recently and there was one lyric nobody could understand. It goes:
"There ain’t no room for the greedy sinner Hurt everybody just to save their soul"
The obvious question is of course how would a "greedy sinner" expect to save their own soul by hurting everybody else?
The rest of the song is pretty straightforward, about having faith being "saved," etc., with the train being netaphoriclaly headed for heaven.
Any ideas?
It's actually "Hurt everybody just to save his own." As in hurting other people in order to get ahead.
It's actually "Hurt everybody just to save his own." As in hurting other people in order to get ahead.