Mystery Train

Words & Music by Junior Parker / Sam Phillips

Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train got my baby and gone

Train train, comin' 'round, 'round the bend
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
Well it took my baby, but it never will again (no, not again)

Train train, comin' down, down the line
Train train, comin' down the line
Well it's bringin' my baby, 'cause she's mine all, all mine
(She's mine, all, all mine)

Recorded: 1955/07/11, first released on single

July 11, 1955 Sun Studio - Memphis, Tennessee

Mystery Train F2WB 8001-01
I Forgot To Remember To Forget F2WB 8000-NA
Trying To Get To You F2WB 8039-NA

Elvis successfully records three new songs at Sun.

They are: 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget', an original composition written for him once again by Stan Kesler; Little Junior Parker's 'Mystery Train', which Sam Phillips originally produced on Parker in 1953; and a number by the Washington, D.C., r & b group the Eagles', Trying to Get to You'. Memphis drummer Johnny Bernero plays on all but 'Mystery Train', and the first two songs will become the next single.