Words & Music:
Junior Parker
Sam Philips
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train got my baby and gone
Train train, comin' 'round, 'round the bend
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
Well it took my baby, but it never will again (no, not again)
Train train, comin' down, down the line
Train train, comin' down the line
Well it's bringin' my baby, 'cause she's mine all, all mine
(She's mine, all, all mine)
Recordingdate: 1955/07/11, first released on: single (album)
Musicians
Musicians who contributed to the first recording of Mystery Train:
(guitar)
(guitar)
(bass)
(drums)
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Topperthetoptoptoptop. Sorry, but I have no other way to describe this marvelous, howling, fantastic, fabulous, gigantic, mysterious, superb Sun recording. Only seldom Elvis reached this level again.
Classic one....I really like both James' and Scotty's guitar versions !
Fabulous song, whether you listen to the early versions or the later ones. It also shows one does not need special lyrics to produce a superb song. Elvis shows once again how great he is. All is in the voice and the band following him in that respect. He is indeed second to none!
In general I don't wet my pants over the SUN sessions. Yes I realize it was groundbreaking/historic, but it just isn't something I've ever listen to very often. I definitely have to be "in the mood." However, I do love "Mystery Train." It's my favorite SUN track. 5 stars.
Well, this was the fusion of two songs from teh same songwriter. Don't know the details anymore. But from one song he took the words and the melody from the other. What he did with this one within a genre he lived with music in its entirety. Best song of the early days...
It combines blues-, rockabilly- and country music. What a fantastic song from Elvis. I know someone else did write it and others did record it too, but it became an Elvis song, because Elvis formed it and did sing it in a way no one can top this.
Best of the SUN tracks and considered one of Elvis' best recordings ever by many. Totally gorundbreaking. Its in my top 5.
I also am not big on the sun tracks,i do however understand these songs were important,and mystery train is one that i do play when i want to hear some early Elvis,love the ending!
The bomb! This cut & Baby Let's Play House are the essence of rockabilly. No other came close.
Absolute classic - a legendary recording and probably the best of the Sun recordings. 5 stars
this is one of the songs that drags you into that fantastic mystery world of Elvis.
Gosh, I remember the first time I ever heard any Sun Session song. At the library, in the late 70's, putting on theat album. Man, I thought Elvis sounded so funny, yet something was strangely compelling about these songs. Maybe it was the echo or the simplistic instruments. Maybe it was the raw, untamed power in Elvis' voice that drew me in...good stuff, anyway!
OMG! Elvis, Scotty & Bill at their best. When I hear this, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I laugh because its so great, so early r&r, and so downright entertaining. Gives complete joy. I cry because it only happened this one time with this great song.
A great great recording perhaps one of the all time best Rock N Roll /Rock a Billy tracks ever. A few years ago I was fortunate to see Scotty and DJ in a show. Scotty started to play the opening chords of this Elvis Classic and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. It was just as the old Sun recording sounded and the audience got up from their seats and crowded around the stage to witness this unforgettable experience.
I usually skip it. I hope they don't discover too many outtakes. Sorry if some think this is not a reaction. It's more the way I feel.
Maybe, quite possibly, the best record ever made by anyone. Certainly one of Elvis' best.
Great recording from Elvis, during those early Sun days. How can anyone object to MT. But were dones the song title come from? It's nowhere in the words of the song. If it had to be re-titled what could it have been called? Train, Train. Does'nt have that ring to it.
Mystery train is a real Sun Classic. But most people have never heard SUN 192 By Jr Parker Mystery Train/Love my Baby when you put those two songs together you get how they were able to come up with Sun 223 Elvis' version of mystry train. It is a must hear. But the idea must have been Sam Phillips because his name is added as the co author of the Presley Version. Try it youll like it.
Certainly one of Elvis´ greatest performances. I remember when I first heard it, it was on the record Elvis´ golden records. I thought this one, as well as Baby let´s play house, was so much better than his earliest RCA stuff. I still think so
Fantastic ! Together with "Baby, Let's Play House" the best SUN song, no doubt. Great, haunting song. Elvis classic. Listen to it often.
In my opinion, one of the best if not the best Sun recording. Elvis was about to change the world when he recorded this!
I'm not all that keen on the early Sun stuff,the later record's,now that's different."I Forgot To Remember" & so on."Train" is ok though.
I have just looked at the lyric's,"train I ride" I alway's thought it was "train arrive" lol.
Trying To Get To You was the best Sun track of all but this one runs it close. The flip side I Forgot To Remember To Forget was the big hit at the time but this one has grown in prestige through the years. A unique recording slightly reminiscent of a skiffle sound it is a true Sun classic.
The lyrics off the song are based on an old Carter Family track called Worried man and Blind Lemon Jefferson's Right of way blues. This is Bruce Springsteen's favourite Elvis song. It's one off my favourites for sure.
This is such a stellar, exciting, fun and unique song and Elvis' 1955 studio master version of this song is definitely the best rendition of this song. This could possibly be Elvis' very best Sun Records track. 5 Stars.
Basic lyrics but a stellar performance by Elvis and the boys. Very raw yet such a fun rocking song.