Elizabeth Cotten — Freight Train

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Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast, 
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Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast 
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Please don't tell what train I'm on, 
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So they won't know where I'm gone. 
 
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Freight train, freight train, goin' round the bend, 
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Freight train, freight train, comin' back again 
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One of these days turn that train around, 
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and go back to my home town. 
 
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One more place I'd like to be, 
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One more place I'd like to see 
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To watch them old Blue Ridge Mountains climb, 
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when I ride old Number Nine. 
 
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When I die Lord, bury me deep, 
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Down at the end of Chestnut Street 
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Where I can hear old Number Nine, 
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as she comes down the line. 
 
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Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast, 
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freight train, freight train, goin' so fast 
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Please don't tell what train I'm on, 
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So they won't know where I'm gone.