"Coal-Burning Train" genre: Alternative Country
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	Reminiscent of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Killer chord progression and vivid Mark Melloan lyrics. Amazing newgrass fiddler, Casey Driessen, paints the "deep red carpet on the walls" while Nashville percussionist, Peter Young, keeps that rusty train clanking down the tracks.
	CD: The Shadowlands   Label: Mammoth Onyx Music Credits: Lyrics and music by Mark Melloan, copyright 2001
	Story Behind the Song The song progresses like a short action film, complete with a twisty ending. Lyrics Coal-Burning Train Lyrics and music by Mark Melloan Deep red carpet on the walls of a coal-burning train, a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands. He and Jim Beam stagger down the hall straight towards me on a coal burning train through the Shadowlands. Greet this man, shake his icy hand. Find a room and we get dressed in black, check our chambers, pull the hammers back. Our four feet upon the top of a coal-burning train, a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands. “Mister, make this wagon stop.” A coal-burning train, a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands. Brave fool makes me fire a shot. He folds forward, pulls the lever back, look like lightning on the east-bound track. She’s there waiting with the mares by a coal-burning train, a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands. Bribe the guard in the money car, bolts click, doors slide free from a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands Bind his hands, knock him to the floor. Find the safe and rig the dynamite, trail black powder, give the match a strike. Flaming dollars in the air, I take my share from a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands. Pin my star on a clean, white shirt. Hide the black, put on a khaki coat. Hit the scene and say I saw the smoke of a coal-burning train through the Shadowlands. Copyright 2001. All rights reserved.

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