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I wrote this song while performing on the train as a "VIA Rail Artist On Board" between Montreal, Quebec and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Train travel is a beautiful thing and, sadly, a dying art in our fair country.

"I'm taking the train/
Cuz my hard uses too much gas/
I'm taking the train/
Cuz the plane just does too darn fast

lyrics

I’m Taking the Train
GW Rasberry

I’m taking the train—‘cuz my car uses too much gas
I’m taking the train—‘cuz the plane just goes too darn fast
I’m taking the train—steady humming on silver wheels
I’m taking the train—‘cuz I love how this country feels

Love how this country feels

Gonna set our sails
Gonna ride the silver rails
Gonna set our sails
Gonna ride the silver rails
Gonna ride the silver rails

You take your ticket and go—east or west let your heart decide
Sometimes you don’t know—you’re just in for a good long ride
I’m taking the train—it’s like a village that moves on wheels
I’m taking the train—‘cuz I love how this country feels

Love how this country feels

Looking out the window scene after scene
Passing through towns that call out to me
Field after field—tree after tree
Feeling like part of history

Gonna set our sails
Gonna ride the silver rails
Gonna set our sails
Gonna ride the silver rails

Gonna start with me and you
Then we’ll make a friend or two
There’s a country here to see
And the train’s the place to be
There’s a country here to see
And the train’s the place to

I’m taking the train—‘cuz my car uses too much gas
I’m taking the train—‘cuz the plane just goes too darn fast
I’m taking the train—steady humming on silver wheels
I’m taking the train—‘cuz I love how this country feels

Love how this country feels

credits

from The Very Next Day, released November 12, 2014
Composed by Gary Rasberry

Producer
Dave Clark
www.thewoodshedorchestrra.com

Recording & Mixing
Matt Roglasky (Memory Device)
www.memory-device.com

Mastering
www.Fedge.ca

Original Cover Art (“Razzletone with Top Hat”)
Wallace Edwards

Graphic Design
Kathy Daw/Summit Sound
www.summitsound.com

Musicians

Gary Rasberry vocals, acoustic guitar

The Woodshed Orchestra

Dave Clark drums, vocals, bells, whistles, fun

Nicolas Buligan trumpet, flugel horn, bkg vocals

Tania Gill piano, bkg vocals

Julia Hambleton clarinet

Rebecca Hennessy trumpet, bkg vocals

Michael Herring upright bass, bkg vocals

Paul Kolinski bkg vocals

Joe Lapinski electric guitar, pedal steel guitar

Karen Ng saxophone, bkg vocals

Karl Silveira trombone

Whitney Peterson bkg vocals, True Friend

Laurel Minnes bkg vocals, True Friend

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Gary Rasberry Kingston, Ontario

JUNO-nominated artist, Gary Rasberry, is a poet, singer-songwriter & Imagination Consultant.

Genre-bending artist Gary Rasberry is equally at home on a children's stage or an intimate coffeehouse.

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