Costello, Elvis - Coal Train Robberies Lyrics
Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter
cutting
And as the signals took an age to change it was
easy pickings
So you go to the movies where they smash it up
you feel good
All through the karaoke girls were squealing
the hits
As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits
While all the time in the camptown theatres
of Piccadilly
They're going to throw a black-face minstrel
show for the barefoot children
That they're always selling
They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint
We interrupt these liberal saints with their
whips and watermelon
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
It's like another world, or it had better be
So we return to whitewashed pout of his
committed lips
Since he was declared the long lost fountain
of youth that drips and drips and drips
They'll be sending him round from door to door,
to sell you back what's already yours
"So many good deeds, so little time"
Say the advertising agency swine
When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns
I hope no living thing cries over his bones
If you don't believe that I'm going for good
You can count the days I'm gone and chop up
the chairs for firewood
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery
It's like another world, or it had better be
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Costello, Elvis Coal Train Robberies Comments
This track reminds me of Crowded House's 2nd album for some reason. EC's scatting at the end is priceless though. A good, rocking number
We interrput these liberal saints w/ their whips & water-melon.
a black face minstrel show !!!! WTF lol hahahhahaha..... irreverent Celts lol
Diffente low point 4 Costello's song- writing. Still ,Miles above the competion.
demo puts this version to shame. The jangle rock he started on this album spelled his creative death-knell, with only a few good spasms after this.
Costello described the LP as 'some of the worst recording of some of my best songs'.
The songs sounded so much better when he played them solo on The BBC Late Show special.
This song wasn't on the lp, but on the cassette & cd
Don't record company employees have ears? It's the best track of the lot with the old effusive intensity back full force. He wouldn't have had this problem with Radar.