Sheila E.

Released: February 19, 1987

Songwriter: Sheila E. Prince

Producer: David Z. Prince

All aboard!

On my way 2 nowhere
Lookin' 4 nothin', baby
I was blue
I saw U sittin' lonely
Thought I was the only, baby
U were 2

Funny when our eyes met
The walls around me turned wet
This is fun

Alone in number 14
A trip with U is foreseen, baby
I will come

Take me on a trip
Kiss me on the lips
Love on a blue train, yeah
Locomotive rock me
Nothing's gonna stop me
Love blue train

The sweetest smell on this train is creepin' into my brain
I get high
With every city we pass
I want U baby mo' bad
My, oh, my

Go 2 cities unknown
I want it all full-blown
Take me there
Never mind the porter
We can hide it on the floor, baby
I don't care

All aboard!
Love on a blue train
(Yeah)
Love on a blue train

Saw U sittin' lonely
Thought I was the only, baby
U were 2
On my way 2 nowhere
Lookin' 4 nothin', baby
I was blue

Let me take your ticket
I'll show U where 2 stick it
Love blue train
Don't mind the porter
We can hide it on the floor

Take me on a trip
Kiss me on the lips
Love on a blue train

Locomotive rock me
Nothing's gonna stop me
(Come on and love me now)
Love on a blue train
All aboard!

Locomotive rock me
(What?)
Nothing's gonna stop me
(What?)
B-b-b-blue train
(Say what?)

Locomotive rock me
(What?)
Nothing's gonna stop me
(Talk 2 me)
B-b-b-blue train

Take me on a trip
Kiss me on the lips
Love on a blue train

Locomotive rock me
Nothing's gonna stop me
Love on a blue train

Jerome upside your head
Mazarati upside your head
Jerome upside your head
Mazarati upside your head

(All aboard)
(Speak it 2 me, baby)

Take me on a trip
Kiss me on the lips
Love on a blue train

Locomotive rock me
Nothing's gonna stop me
Love on a blue train

Say it one more time
(Let's jam)
Train
The E train
(I'm on the E train)

Locomotive rock me
Nothing's gonna stop me
B-b-b-blue train

Uh
Everybody get on the E train

Locomotive rock me
(What?)
Nothing's gonna stop me
B-b-b-blue train

On the one

Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo on December 12, 1957, is a singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Oakland, California. Her honorific title is “The Queen of Percussion”.

The daughter of a Mexican jazz percussionist and Creole/African-American factory worker, Sheila comes from a family of musical royalty – father Pete Escovedo and uncle Coke were members of the Santana band for a time. Her other uncles are Alejandro, who has had a sustained alt-punk career; Javier, who led the early punk pioneer band The Zeros; and Mario, who fronted the 90s group The Dragons and MEX, aka Mario Escovedo Xperience. Sheila’s brothers Juan and Peter Michael are also percussionists, with Peter working on The Wayne Brady Show. Sheila is the goddaughter of Tito Puente, a Latin Jazz pioneer and Spanish Harlem legend.

“Before I had language, I had rhythm,” she wrote in The Beat Of My Own Drum, a 2014 memoir. “I learned it before I learned my mother tongue.” At the age of 20, Sheila became a member of George Duke’s R&B jazz band, and worked with him from 1976 to 1980, during Duke’s early Epic/CBS years. By the age of 26, she had already worked or toured with Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, Diana Ross, and family friend Lionel Richie.

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