Western Railroad Discussion > Lookin' Out My Backdoor!

With deep apologies to Mr John Fogerty, here’s a phantom, shamelessly paraphrased set of lyrics CCR never performed…

Just got home with my toy, new telephoto, oh boy!
Got to set up, use the vista from my porch
Grain train action sets in, pretty soon I'm focusin'
Doo, doo, doo, shootin' out my back door

Giant GEs are the deal, unit train familiar wheels
Look at all the loaded grain cars snakin' o’er the hill
Up & down the railroad, just another payload
Doo, doo, doo, shootin' out my back door

Depth of field and pixels are mixing at my hand
Won't you please help me shoot this scene? Doo doo doo

Digital apparition provided by magician
Doo, doo, doo, shootin' out my back door
Up & down the railroad, just another payload
Doo, doo, doo, shootin' out my back door

Hit me up tomorrow. Today, I have no sorrow
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door*

1. BNSF 3945 leads a loaded unit grain train south (TT east) toward Navarre, KS on April 9, 2018. Photo taken from a little alleyway between an old store building and a residential structure, as if I were looking right out one of their back doors.

Thanks for humming along!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

*Lookin’ Out My Back Door was the ‘alpha’ side of a double-tuned 45 RPM vinyl release from Creedence Clearwater Revival in the summer of 1970. The ‘beta’ side of the 45 was a song called Long As I Can See The Light. This double release entered Billboard’s Top-40 in August of 1970, ascended to #2 before ending a 12-week chart run. It would be the 5th & final time CCR would reach the frustration of a #2 position, never once reaching #1… DJ Sir L

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Like it.
JB

Bravo!
(you've got too much free time--and talent--for this stuff, you are going to make the rest of us jealous).
Thanks for posting!

Great Shot DJ Sir L! :)

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Love the lyrics, and the photo!  Say, are you any kin to Wierd Al Yankovic?       

Rathole Wrote: > ... are you any kin to Wierd Al ...

I wouldn't mind being "kin" to his bank account...

;^)

I'm glad to see someone having fun.
Wonderful photo and I love both of the CCR songs and I know the tunes that will follow me around all day today.
However that is about the flattest, straightest brown worm I have seen.

Nothing like a Central Plains sky.

Like the shot and like the lyrics!

Larry

I see now why you spun records, as opposed to appearing on them. ;)

Nice pic, BTW.

switchlock Wrote: > I see now why you spun records ... ;)

(snickering) flattery will gitcha EVERYwhere... 🎭

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Nice catch, Lance!

Randy Lundgren

A worm in the flatlands!  Very nice photograph, Lance.

Bob Willer
Flatlands, Kansas

You got too much time on your hands:)!!  

Very creative post!

Lance, we will have to get you up on stage at Knucleheads Saturday Jam session and have you sing it while a UPER is going across Montgall. KCRW287

KCRW287 Wrote: > ... will have to get you up on stage at
> Knucleheads ... and have you sing ...

SING, you say? Good Lord, what on Earth do you have against the good folks at Knuckleheads? I do believe that kind of cruel and unusual punishment is strictly prohibited by our wonderful Constitution. I'm pretty sure I couldn't carry a tune, even in a jumbo hopper...

No sir... give me two turntables, a mixing board and a stack of vinyl, and I know what to do. Maybe you can toss in a microphone so I can tell bad jokes once in awhile... 🎙

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No bad joke needed. It's a terrific image! Like the lyrics, too! You done the railroad and CCR proud.

MC



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Totally excellent. Many thanks Lance. You make an old fart feel good.

Don Allender

EXCELLENT , Lance !  --Kelly

Great lyrics changes to fit the subject!
As a musician me and friends always used to do that (Like: "Hey Dude", don't make it Rad, take a Rad song, and make it Radder)
Of course back in the 80's "Rad" was short for "Radical"

But you are TO king of switching song lyrics, love that kind of stuff, still find myself doing the same thing (in my head) from time to time!

I heard "Looking out my back door" was a song about taking LSD back then (?)

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA