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Freight Train

from Mountain Songs by falling off a building

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this song was taught to me by Joseph Bolick, the composer of "stafford hartley"
and my best friend emeritus

he told me that elisabeth cotten wrote it when she was 12. i believe it.

it's such a great guitar part.

lyrics

i looked up the lyrics on songmeanings.net
but now that's all messed up


freight train, freight train,
goin so fast,
freight train, freight train,
goin so fast.
please don't tell 'em which train I'm on
so they won't know where I've gone.

freight train, freight train
comin round the bend
freight train, freight train,
gone again
one of these days, turn that train around
go back to my hometown

one more place i'd like to be
one more place i'd like to see
to watch those old blue ridge mountains climb
as i ride old number nine

when i die, please bury me deep
down at the end of old Bleeker street
so i can hear old number nine
as he goes rollin by

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from Mountain Songs, released March 25, 2008
written by elisabeth cotten

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this act began in 2004 and just turned fourteen years old. it's been surviving on the fringes of interest since the day it was first conceived. it's worth doing. it's that thing of realising you are your own best friend and you need to take as good of care of yourself as you possibly can and in so doing you learn to take care of everyone else. ... more

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