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Artist: Elizabeth Cotten
Canonical path: /elizabeth-cotten/freight-train
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Freight Train
Read Freight Train lyrics by Elizabeth Cotten on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Freight Train
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Freight train, Freight train, run so fast
Freight train, Freight train, run so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
They won't know what route I've gone
When I am dead and in my grave
No more good times here I crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
Tell them all that I've gone to sleep.
When I die, Lorde, bury me deep
Way down on old Chestnut street
Then I can hear old Number 9
As she comes rolling by.
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Elizabeth Cotten performs "Freight Train", and this lyric page sits inside the Elizabeth Cotten catalog on LyroVerse.
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