FREIGHT TRAIN
(Libba Cotten - written about 1905)
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, gone again
One of these days turn that train around
Go back to my home town

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

One more place I'd like to be
One more place I'd love to see
To watch those old Blue Ridge Mountain climb
While I ride old Number Nine

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

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

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

When I'm dead and in my grave 
No more good times here I'll crave 
Place the stones at my head and feet 
And tell them I've gone to sleep

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

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