by If you’re sitting down to play a game of Ticket to Ride and really want to get into the locomotive spirit, then you need a great playlist full of songs that make the rails come alive around you. We’ve put together such a playlist with classics like Midnight Train to Georgia and Folsom Prison Blues, as well as a few fun surprises. A lot of the great railroady songs are from the early 1900s like Glenn Miller’s Chattanooga Choo Choo or Louis Jordan’s Choo Choo Ch’Boogie, a time when riding the rails was romanticized before airplanes came along and stole the thunder. Some more modern train songs tend to lean into Country Western, which makes sense as the genre harkens back to simpler times and the railroad had a huge impact on shaping the American West. Dolly Parton shows up in our playlist with her song Blue Smoke, and we’ve included Ramblin’ Man by Hank Williams, Jr. For the full list of songs in text format, scroll below the Spotify playlist.
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Fans of the board game Ticket to Ride know it can take a long time to complete a playthrough which is why this playlist comes in at about 2 hours of train-themed music. Set it to shuffle and get to building your railroad empire.
List of ‘Ticket to Ride’ Songs
Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
Chatanooga Choo Choo – Glenn Miller
Dinosaur Train Theme Song – Little Ditto
Peace Train – Yusuf / Cat Stevens
Rock N Roll Train – AC/DC
Trains Make Me Lonesome – George Strait
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
Baby Likes To Rock It – The Tractors
Friendship Train – Gladys Knight & The Pips
Mystery Train – Elvis Presley
Long Train Runnin’ – The Doobie Brothers
John Henry – Harry Belafonte
The Subway Song – Delacey
Subway – Bee Gees
Morning Train (9 to 5) – Sheena Easton
All Down The Line – The Rolling Stones
Another Town – ABBA
Blue Smoke – Dolly Parton
Long Black Train – Conway Twitty
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie – Louis Jordan
Engine Engine #9 – Roger Miller
Roll Call – Thomas & Friends
Hey Porter – Johnny Cash
The Locomotion – Little Eva
Midnight Special – Harry Belafonte
Only a Hobo – Unreleased – Bob Dylan
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Ramblin’ Man – Hank Williams, Jr.
Southern Pacific – Neil Young International Harvesters
This Train Don’t Stop There Anymore – Elton John
The Train Kept A-Rollin’ – 2015 Remaster – The Yardbirds
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow – With Band – The Soggy Bottom Boys
The Last Train to Clarksville – The Monkees
