S&E Lyrics Quiz

A “I must have left my house at 8 because I always do. The train I’m certain left the station just as it was due.” The opening lines of The Day Before You

Came, a 1982 single by which famous charttopping quartet?

B “The train back home again. Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then.” Also from The Day Before You Came. Whose cover version reached the top 40 in 1984?

C “Euston, Paddington, train station please. Make the red lights turn green, endlessly.” Which Welsh band came “alive outside the M25” in their song Londinium?

D “Well the pistons keep on turning and the wheels go round and round. The steel rails are cold and hard for the miles that they go down.” A remixed version of Long Train Runnin’ was a top ten UK hit in 1993 for which band? E “Well that long black train got my baby and gone.” Which singer came to early prominence with his version of

Mystery Train in 1955, months before his breakthrough hit?

F “What’s that there on the railway line? Looks like my old brown shoe.”

Waiting For A Train was a onehit wonder in 1983 for which Australian band? G “Bought a one-way ticket back to the life he once knew.” According to Gladys Knight’s famous tune, he was catching that midnight train to where? I “I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station - what a waste.”

What A Waste, indeed. This singer departed too soon aged 57, in 2000. Who was he?

J “Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train. ‘Til Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.” Which folk artist had a UK top ten hit in 1971 with The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down? K “We’ve been waiting for years and now it’s here. Last train to Trancentral.” According to their song Last Train to

Trancentral in the early 1990s, which band had been waiting for years?

M “If love was a train I think I would ride me a long one - hear me talking, talking 50 boxcars long.” If Love Was A Train was the second single off whose album entitled Short Sharp Shocked? N “And when a train goes by it’s such a sad sound.” At least according to the ever-wonderful Smiths, in which song on their 1985 number one album Meat is Murder?

O “Don’t you know that it’s time to get on board, and let this train keep on riding, riding on through.” Who invited us to join the Love Train in the early 1970s? P “Choo choo train is riding, all aboard! Riding on a train, think of you again.” Name the band who had a hit in 1989 with Riding On A Train.

R “And just outside of New Orleans is a big toll gate. And all the trains that go through the toll gate, they gotta pay the man some money.” Which line is Lonnie Donegan singing about?

S “Train whistle blowing makes a sleepy noise. Underneath their blankets go all the girls and boys.”

Morningtown Ride was a top ten hit in the 1960s for which Australian group? T “Time flies by when you’re the driver of a train.” Ah, doesn’t that take you back? Those of a certain age will remember this, from the children’s TV series Chigley. But in which county was Chigley located? U “I was standing in the station, being pounded by the rain. So I chose the last compartment of a stationary train.” The opening lines of a big hit in 1981 for former members of 10CC Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. Name the song.

V “One man on a lonely platform. One case sitting by his side.”

Fade To Grey was a hit for which 1980s synth band? W “Out of my brain, on the train.” Who, quite literally, were on the 5.15?