(Traditional)
Guest Vocals on AFM: Jewel

A young poet lay drunk on a barroom floor
having drunk so much he could not drink anymore
terrible visions they broiled through his brain
he dreamed he was riding on a hellbound train

it was an engine with murderous blood it was damp
it was brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp
there was a demon for fuel he was shoveling bones
while the furnaces rang with a thousand groans

so they were riding on a hellbound train
a hellbound train
rich man poor man we all end the same
we all end up riding on a hellbound train

well the train rushed on at an awful pace
the sulfur and fumes scorched our hands and our face ashed
and brighter and brighter the lightning flashed
hotter and hotter the air became
till our clothes were burnt with each blinding flame

see we were riding on a hellbound train
a hellbound train
rich man poor man we all end the same
we all end up riding on a hellbound train

out of the distance there rose a yell
ha ha said the devil we're nearing hell
then oh how we passengers all shrieked with pain
please mister devil won't you please stop this train

but he just laughed at us and he danced with glee
he laughed and he joked at our misery
he said my faithful friends you have done all my work
and never will the devil a payday shirk
you have bullied the weak you have robbed the poor
your starving brother you've have turned from the door
you have laid up gold where the cancer rusts
you have given free rein to your beastly lust

so now you're riding on a hellbound train
a hellbound train
rich man poor man we all end the same
we all end up riding on this hellbound train

we have justice scorned and corruption avowed
we have trampled the laws of nature down
we have drunk we rioted and cheated and plundered and lied
we have mocked our birth in our hell born pride

and now we're riding on a hellbound train
a hellbound train
rich man poor man we all end the same
we all end up riding on a hellbound train