Triple Confunkshun! “Loves Train” Then and Thereafter Version

I did not click upon a LinkedIN message to my email entitled “Con#Linkedinpuoi”; didn’t look like something I wanted to learn about.  Yet, simultaneously, reading the letters “Con”  reminded me of one of my favorite music bands of all times, Confunkshun! Can you see why?  It was the “Con” thing.  Immediately, I went to YouTube to hear them again – it has been a while – and my/their classic slow jam, “Loves Train”.

Original Soul Train:

I want to show you three versions of this favorite song that only time has changed from Soul Train to the best one I have on vinyl.  If you’ve never sung along to this great song, here are the words:

Warm night, can’t sleep
Too hurt, too weak
Gotta call her up
Dial that, number, no one, answers
Till it’s two o’clock

And if by chance, you let me come over
Out on the street, I want to see ya baby
And if by chance you let me just hold ya
I’m down on my knee, I wanna please ya baby, I
[I’ll be your righteous lover!]

She said ‘sugar, honey, darlin’
I really wanna see ya too
It’s just that someone’s, over, and baby
I really wanna be with chu’

But if by chance you let me just hold ya
I’m calling I’m free, I wanna see ya baby
When in need you said you would be here
And you hold the key
To my very being baby and I
[I love you, baby]

If you are that special lover
And love keeps you tied to another
That’s the way it goes on love’s train

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
But you’ve just have to keep on goin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train…

On a warm night, lady, wants her, baby
So she calls him up
Dial that, number, no one, answers
Till it’s two o’clock

If by chance, you just come over
‘Cause darlin’ please, I’ve got to see ya baby
And when in need you said you would be here
And now I’m in need and please believe me baby
I love you darlin’ (listen babe)

If you are that special lover
Love keeps you tied to another
That’s the way it goes on love’s train.
[You don’t need no, you don’t need no ticket to ride]

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
But you’ve just got to keep on goin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[Listen babe, listen baby]

If deep sorrow you’ve been soakin’
But you’ve just have to keep on strokin’,
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[Loves a hurting thang ya’ll that makes you want to (cry, come on)]

If you are that special lover
And love keeps you tied to another
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[Find yourself alone]

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
But you’ve just have to keep on flowin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[In time everything’s gonna be alright]

If deep sorrow you’ve been soakin’
But you’ve just got to keep on strokin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train…..

Major Props to Michael Cooper & Felton C Pilate 

And this nice version, (if Tom Joyner were not following Michael on-stage, like his usual ass! )

 

Which version do you prefer?  Let the world know in “comments”.  Michael is better not bald; his voice seems still on-point and the band the same.  As for me, the original will always be one of the songs that lives inside the soundtrack of my life as the Vinyl version below, with ALL of the above lyrics (not just an edited version).

“In Time Everything’s gonna be alright, C’mon…”

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