Ik ben een groot fan van de Amerikaanse singer/songwriter Marc Cohn sinds ik in 1991 zijn nummer Perfect Love op de radio hoorde. Wat een fantastische stem. En toen kwam opeens ook nog James Taylor voorbij die meezong. Ik was gelijk verkocht en heb zijn eerste album uit dat jaar veel gedraaid, met heerlijke nummers als Walking In Memphis, Strangers In A Car en Silver Thunderbird.

Onlangs vond ik tot mijn grote vreugde een opname van een optreden uit 1992 samen met de geweldige gitarist Jeff Pevar, die o.a samenspeelde met James Taylor, Rickie Lee Jones, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker & Donald Fagen. Ze spelen hier Ghost Train en ik vind het weer helemaal top!

Ghost Train
Everybody talks about some fateful day.
I guess that this was mine.
I may be here to tell some kind of story,
but I think it’s gonna take a little time.
That’s all right.

See I’m rocking in a cradle,
down the hall somewhere
and I am lost inside a dream.
Maybe I am falling, maybe I am flying,
but I know if I am crying she is holding me.

And then the sky broke up,
and then the rain came down,
and it washed away everything on the ground.
Wash it away, wash it away, wash it away.

Now baby’s got that bottle
filled with lightning and rain.
He keeps calling out for someone,
but she’s riding on a train.
Riding on the ghost train.

And she keeps on riding.
She’s gonna keep on riding on.
Mama keep on riding.
You’ve got to keep on riding.

Some trains they leave there in the morning.
Some leave in the afternoon.
Some trains they leave here right on time.
And some they just leave too soon.
Way too soon.

But I’ve gotta keep on.
For as long as I can.

Baby’s got that bottle
filled with lightning and rain.
And he keeps calling out for someone,
but she’s riding on a train.
Riding on the ghost train

But every night she was riding.
You’ve gotta keep on riding on.
Momma keeps on riding.

Baby’s got that bottle
filled with lightning and rain.
And he keeps calling out for someone,
but she’s riding on a train.
Riding on the ghost train.