From their 2008 album Black Ice. As Rodney Dangerfield used to say “What a crowd, What a crowd, but in this case AC/DC gets all the respect from the crowd of around 85,000 people at Argentina’s River Plate stadium. The band was in their 50’s and 60’s at this point. This concert had an unreal energy about it. The song peaked at number 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
From songfacts
This was AC/DC’s first new single in eight years, their longest gap to date. Black Ice debuted at the top of the album chart selling 784,000 copies the first week. It was AC/DC’s first chart-topping release in the US since For Those About To Rock in 1981.
This song was one of four tracks on Black Ice that featured the word ‘Rock’ in the title, the others being “She Likes Rock ‘n’ Roll,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream” and “Rocking All the Way.” Vocalist Brian Johnson explained to Vancouver 24 Hours: “I just think we’re trying to tell people that normal service has been resumed. We’re back, and this is a rock ‘n’ roll record. It cannot be mistaken. We’re ramming it down their throat, me son! But I must admit, we didn’t notice. We went, ‘F—ing hell, there’s four songs with rock ‘n’ roll in the title.’ But that’s just what we do.”
This featured in promo ads for season 4 of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds plus in Episode 69 of the show.
Rock N Roll Train
One hot angel
One cool devil
Your mind on the fantasy
Living on the ecstasy
Give it all, give it
Give it what you got
Come on give it all a lot
Pick it up and move it
Give it to the spot
Your mind on a fantasy
Living on ecstasy
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Yeah the runaway train
(Running right off the track)
One hard ring a bell
Old school rebel
A ten for the revelry
Jamming up the agency
Shake it, shake it
Take it to the spot
You know she made it really hot
Get it on, give it up
Come on give it all you got
Your mind on a fantasy
Living on the ecstasy
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Yeah the runaway train yeah
(Running right off the track)
On the runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
One hot southern belle
Son of a devil
A school boy’s spelling bee
A school girl with a fantasy
One hard ring a bell
All screwed up
A ten on the revelry
Jamming up the agency
Shake it, take it
Take it to the spot
You know she make it really hot
Give it all, give it up
Come on give it all you got
You know she just like it
Runaway train
(Running right off the track) she’s coming off the track
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Get it on, get it up
Come on give it all you got
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Angus Young / Malcolm Young