TALKIN' FREIGHT
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot CNR EP 1967


Come on along take a trip with me
>From the eastern shore to the western sea
With a big twin diesel and a red caboose
Better couple on up 'fore I turn you loose
'Cause everybody's movin', everything's movin'
Everybody's movin' everything.

You take potash, grain mash, fertilizer for your grass
Iron ore, copper ore or anything you wish
Seeds for the flower bed, wheat to the lakehead
Steel beams and ice cream, vegetables and fish
You name it and they move it.

Machinery of all kinds, crude oil and binder twine
News print, peppermint, cement and chains
Household appliances, anything the man says
Firewood and dry goods or anything you name
North, south, east or west, don't make no difference.

Kerosene, bromine or clear polyethylene
Combines, turpentine, silverware and paint
Crushed stone for the home, ornaments or whale bone
The one thing they can't move is anything that ain't.

So come on along take a trip with me
>From the eastern shore to the western sea
With a big twin diesel and a red caboose
Better couple on up 'fore I turn you loose
'Cause everybody's movin', everything's movin'
Everybody's movin' everything.



(Transcribed by David Story - April 2013)