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Freight Train

Words and Music by Elizabeth Cotton (at age 11)  - 1906

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F	C7	-	F
A7	Bb	F         C7	F (C7 repeat twice)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Freight Train, Freight Train, run so fast.  Freight Train, Freight Train, run so fast.

Please don't tell what train I'm on,  So they won't know where I'm gone.

 

Freight Train, Freight Train, round the bend.  Freight Train, Freight Train, gone again.

One of these days turn that train around,  Go back to my home town.

 

When I die please bury me deep,  Down at the end of Chestnut street.

So I can hear old Number Nine,  As she goes rolling by.

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Performer Links:

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Watch the WineLand Banjo Band perform "Freight Train" (youtuibe, timestamp 2:15)

Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

This Chord Chart may not appear correctly with some browsers.  It should be viewed with a full size window.

The chord names should appear in single rows.   Let me know of any problems.

 

email: jbott@ix.netcom.com