Peace Train

It reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week of 6 November 1971, his first US top 10 hit, and spent three weeks at number one on the adult contemporary chart. On the album version the strings fall away at the end, leaving his solo acoustic guitar. In a 1970s concert he said he wrote it on a train while thinking of Alfred Hitchcock. He re-recorded it in 2003 for War Child, and in 2021 with Playing for Change, with more than 25 musicians from 12 countries.

Dolly Parton covered it with Ladysmith Black Mambazo on her 1996 album Treasures and released it as a single in 1997, reaching number 23 on the US Dance chart. It has appeared in films including Remember the Titans (2000) and We Are Marshall (2006).

Live

In October 2001 he sang it a cappella on a VH1 pre-show for the Concert for New York City, his first public performance of it in more than 20 years. He sang it at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo in December 2006, at the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington on 30 October 2010 while Ozzy Osbourne sang Crazy Train, and at the National Remembrance Service in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 29 March 2019.