Bibliografia Ferroviaria Italiana

 

Treno 8017. Il più grave disastro ferroviario italiano

 

Canzone tratta dal cd "Human Remains" di Terry Allen, pubblicato nel 1996 dalla Sugar Hill Records

 


 

 

Galleria dele Armi
(Terry Allen & Will Sexton, Green Shoes Pub./Jalapeño Cornbread, BMI)

 

I
During the time of the second World War
A small town in Italy
Death
Came
Aboard
Train number 8017
It wasn't strafing or bombing
Clandestine de-railings
It was just
Some bad coal
The stockyard
Was selling

Climb aboard everybody
To Galleria dele Armi
Train 8017 to hell or to heaven
Train 8017 climb aboard

II
All the allied forces
Shut down the town
Made rich men and poor men
The same

poor

So they hid
In the night
Shivered
Til the 8017 came
Their families were starving
In the village of Bovano
They had to break
The rules
Just to try
To find food

Climb aboard everybody
To Galleria dele Armi
Train 8017 to hell or to heaven
Train 8017 climb aboard

III
Just through the mountains
Is Galleria dele Armi
A rich valley so fertile
And full
And only one train can get there
there's only one tunnel
To pass through

But the train
It stopped
In the middle
Of the tunnel
And smoke
From bad coal
Turned black
The 500
From Bovano
Who hungered
But died
Before
They got through

Climb aboard everybody
To Galleria dele Armi
Train 8017
Train 8017 climb aboard

During the time of the second World War
A small town in Italy
Death
Came
Aboard