FREIGHT TRAIN
(Libba Cotten - written about 1905)

Chas McDevitt & Nancy Whiskey - 1957
Rusty Draper - 1957
Roy Acuff - 1965
Jim & Jesse - 1971

Also recorded by: 

Pete Seeger; Elizabeth Cotten; The Overlanders; Peter & Gordon; 
Dick & Dee Dee; Chet Atkins; Esther & Abi Ofarim; Dave Dudley; 
Peter, Paul & Mary; Joan Baez; Mac Wiseman; Peter Morse; 
New Lost City Ramblers.



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.



*Sometimes the second line of the Chorus is sung 
as "Freight train, freight train, gone at last".

**In Verse 3, sometimes 'Bleeker Street' is sung 
in place of 'Chestnut Street'.

***Sometimes Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten's name is
spelled 'Cotton'.