Freight Train
Elizabeth Cotten
Freight train, Freight train, going so fast Freight train, Freight train, going so fast Please don't tell what train I'm on So they won't know where I'm gone Freight train, Freight train, going round the bend Freight train, Freight train, comin' back again One of these days turn that train around And go back to my home town One more place I'd like to be One more place I'd lie to see To watch them old Blue Ridge Mountains climb When I ride old number nine When I die, Lord Bury me deep Down at the end of Chestnut Street Where I can hear old number nine As she comes down the line Freight train, Freight train, going so fast Freight train, Freight train, going so fast ...