The Hell-bound Train Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH GGFFIIJJ KKBBKKLL MANNOPQQ FFRR A SS RRBB| A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor | A |
| Having drunk so much he could drink no more | A |
| So he fell asleep with a troubled brain | B |
| To dream that he rode on a hell bound train | B |
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| The engine with murderous blood was damp | C |
| And was brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp | C |
| An imp for fuel was shoveling bones | D |
| While the furnace rang with a thousand groans | D |
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| The boiler was filled with lager beer | E |
| And the devil himself was the engineer | E |
| The passengers were a most motley crew | F |
| Church member atheist Gentile and Jew | F |
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| Rich men in broad cloth beggars in rags | G |
| Handsome young ladies and withered old hags | G |
| Yellow and black men red brown and white | H |
| All chained together O God what a sight | H |
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| While the train rushed on at an awful pace | G |
| The sulphurous fumes scorched their hands and face | G |
| Wider and wider the country grew | F |
| As faster and faster the engine flew | F |
| Louder and louder the thunder crashed | I |
| And brighter and brighter the lightning flashed | I |
| Hotter and hotter the air became | J |
| Till the clothes were burned from each quivering frame | J |
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| And out of the distance there arose a yell | K |
| 'Ha ha ' said the devil 'we're nearing hell' | K |
| Then oh how the passengers all shrieked with pain | B |
| And begged the devil to stop the train | B |
| But he capered about and danced for glee | K |
| And laughed and joked at their misery | K |
| 'My faithful friends you have done the work | L |
| And the devil never can a payday shirk | L |
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| 'You've bullied the weak you've robbed the poor | M |
| The starving brother you've turned from the door | A |
| You've laid up gold where the canker rust | N |
| And have given free vent to your beastly lust | N |
| 'You've justice scorned and corruption sown | O |
| And trampled the laws of nature down | P |
| You have drunk rioted cheated plundered and lied | Q |
| And mocked at God in your hell born pride | Q |
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| 'You have paid full fare so I'll carry you through | F |
| For it's only right you should have your due | F |
| Why the laborer always expects his hire | R |
| So I'll land you safe in the lake of fire | R |
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| 'Where your flesh will waste in the flames that roar | A |
| And my imps torment you forevermore ' | - |
| Then the cowboy awoke with an anguished cry | S |
| His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high | S |
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| Then he prayed as he never had prayed till that hour | R |
| To be saved from his sin and the demon's power | R |
| And his prayers and his vows were not in vain | B |
| For he never rode the hell bound train | B |
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Paul Walker: Read this poem years ago, I still like it, reconciliation is critical in our lives and we have this ministry. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself!
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