唱首火車之歌給你聽
自少就對火車著迷。雖然,旺角火車站不是在小學的回家路上,也會特意走上聯運道,看看那些由柴油機發動的電力火車頭。到了中學,學校就在火車橋旁邊,每每有火車經過,都會探頭外望,老師便會叫自己的名字,接續讀出停下的課文,當然是接不上啦!
好不容易放學了,背著書包回家,途經聖羅撒學校及花墟那段基堤道,遇有火車經過,不管是黑壓壓的貨卡、臭氣薰天的豬車,還是慢速的客車,都會蹲低身,假意綁好鞋帶,望著火車輾過路軌,聽聽金屬輪轆,與鐵軌空隙,互相猛撞踫擊的聲音。
每逢暑假,都會坐火車北上。拿著地圖,對照著車站的位置,時間分秒不差。看著訊號員,揮動著旗號,列車員站立在月台上,鐵一般的紀律,行車安全準確。不需要一小時生活圈,不求罔顧生命安危的速度,不追逐經濟效益,只要快快樂樂地,安全抵達目的地。
不管是冒著濃煙的蒸氣火車頭,還是電氣化機車,祈求的不是高速,而是看看那閃動不定的燈光,嗅嗅過隧道時那發霉的氣味,與站在鐵路沿線的村童揮揮手,給在站頭商販一點生意,與身邊的旅客說說家鄉的故事,追尋朱自清在《背影》中的描述http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ZLl9mbxkU,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NoHJP0LlUM,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5AZXHE1AE&feature=related,在咚咚不停的鐘聲中,過了一站又一站。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm5-WdB_aVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKvEiW7cWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F6sXL4Jb_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UW7mz8dZnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbZS349v8rU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_wrFI-Kbxk&feature=related
Freight train freight train goin' so fast
Freight train freight train goin' so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I've gone.
Freight train, freight train, comin' round the bend
Freight train, freight train, gone again
One of these days turn that train around
Go back to my hometown.
One more place I'd like to be
One more place I'd love to see
To watch those old Blue Ridge Mountains climb
As I ride ol' Number Nine.
When I die please bury me deep
Down at the end of Bleecker Street
So I can hear ol' Number Nine
As she goes rollin' by.