A Song about Songs about Trains

 

Today I worked from home, so I don't have much to say. Then we had a condo board meeting this evening, so I didn't have time to make recent videos into movies and post them on YouTube. Instead, I'll just recount some things I forgot to mention before:

Last week Travalon was in a meeting at work where one of the people in charge said they have to get to know the kids and understand their world, and he said, "It would be easier if I understood what 'six seven' was all about." Everyone laughed.

Yesterday Travalon was playing an arcade game called Tapper where he was a bartender and had to sling drinks down the bar to a customer and then catch the empty glasses coming back. The customer came closer, and Travalon thought he was picking up a beer to fling to him, but instead he picked up the customer and accidentally flung him down the bar! He lost the game but he was laughing so hard that he didn't even care.

Last night at the open mic the kids were cute, but they giggled more than they sang. When we first got there, a guy was singing a song he had written that just kind of went: "Pink moon, pink moon, it's a pink moon." Made me think of the time at the late, lamented rock jam when another guy (same guy?) sang a song that just went: "Good dog, good dog, he's a good dog." This might be a good time to write the lyrics to the song Travalon and I wrote last night:

    You can write songs about love and loss,
    You can write songs about Christ on the Cross,
    You can write songs with your big old brains,
    But I don't want to hear songs unless they're about trains.

    Trains, trains, songs about trains,
    I only want to hear those songs about trains,
    I don't want to hear no songs about planes,
    I'm only gonna sing those songs about about trains. 

   
    I wish I had a second verse,
    But if I did, it would only be worse.

    At least this song has got a refrain,

    I only want to hear those songs about trains.

    Trains, trains, songs about trains,

    I'll sing about them till you put me in chains,

    Trains, trains, songs about trains,

    I only want to hear those songs about trains.

    Trains, trains, songs about trains,

    I really didn't mean to cause you any pains.

    But nothing about me is going to change,

    I only want to hear those songs about trains.

    Trains, trains, I'll sing about trains,

    Whether the sun's out or whether it rains.

    Nothing about me you can rearrange,

    I'm only gonna sing those songs about trains.

    I don't want to sing about the universe,

    I don't want to sing about what is worse,

    I only want to sing about the thing that's best,

    And that's the sound of a train going west!

    Trains, trains, songs about trains,

    Full of coal and full of grains,

    Empty boxcars are all that remains,

    I only want to sing those songs about trains.

There is a tune, but I'm not sure if it's original or if I stole it from a song that already exists. If there's any demand for it, we could sing this masterpiece and post the video here.

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