This song is my favorite at the moment! but I have two questions about it:
- does Keith play his part (the riff) in Open-G? In the videoclip definitely not, but on the record?
- I know what 'Silver Train' means in Dutch literally speaking... but what does it mean/stand for??? Is it some metaphor for something?

Thank you!

Glamour girl that knocks ya out?

is "Silver Train" american slang for something?

Once I had a baby, she eventually asked me: "I still wonder where that train came from, that knocked me down"...
Use yer imagination, man... Never been runned over? Banged?

I'm Dutch you see, so I think in a Dutch way... even when I'm reading English! so that's the point; things you sometimes just don't see when you're not a native speaker! ;-)

The riff is played exactly the same whatever tuning (standard or OpenG). But with openG you've got more strings ringing.

Knowing Mick Jagger "Silvertrain" probably means his d*ck...

JumpingKentFlash

'Silver Train' is no slang that I know of (I'm American).

Heard of 'riding/driving a train' as slang for using cocaine ("Casey Jones" - Grateful Dead, "Driver 8" - REM, etc). Also 'pulling a train' for a girl performing sex on several guys.

The song has a great bass part in it.

"No Anchovies, Please"



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Maybe a dildo ala Steely Dan?

"No Anchovies, Please"

Yes, it's in Open G. Both the rythym and the tuning for the slide part.

"and I did not know her name"

It is in open G and Steve Appleford states in his book "Rip This Joint: The Rolling Stones Song by Song" (or It's Only Rock and Roll or whatever the title happens to be now) that the song is about a run in with a prostitute. So that's his opinion on the subject.

Well, she took his money.

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Well, she took his money.


and they didn't know each other's names.

I believe that "Silver Train" was written for Johnny Winters who recorded it around the same time as the Stones so he may be the silver train being an albino and all.

I think sometimes lyrics don't have a meaning, whether you speak English or Dutch. Sometimes they seem to be in the universal language of Gibberish .

But it's interesting to hear all the theories about Silver Train that are being suggested. I think we all can decide whether we like any of the theories - or not!


mrrockandroll Wrote:
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> I'm Dutch you see, so I think in a Dutch way...
> even when I'm reading English! so that's the
> point; things you sometimes just don't see when
> you're not a native speaker! ;-)

mrrockandroll Wrote:
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> - I know what 'Silver Train' means in Dutch
> literally speaking... but what does it mean/stand
> for??? Is it some metaphor for something?
>
> Thank you!

Needle

Sounds fair enuff. Just hope that "needle" aint a metaphor for anything else

Of course not. This was when Keith was going through an embroidery and heirloom sewing phase.



Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Sounds fair enuff. Just hope that "needle" aint a
> metaphor for anything else

Stargroves Wrote:
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> Of course not. This was when Keith was going
> through an embroidery and heirloom sewing phase.
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>
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> Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> > Sounds fair enuff. Just hope that "needle" aint
> a
> > metaphor for anything else


lol

At least Keith's drug habits were managed thru a silver spoon...

Please don't speak when you have a song in your mouth. That's just not good manners.