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Artist: Peter Paul And Mary
Canonical path: /peter-paul-and-mary/freight-train
Related lyric paths: 6
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Freight Train
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Freight Train
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Chorus:
Freight train freight train goin' so fast
Freight train freight train goin' so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I've gone.
Freight train, freight train, comin' round the bend
Freight train, freight train, gone again
One of these days turn that train around
Go back to my hometown.
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One more place I'd like to be
One more place I'd love to see
To watch those old blue ridge mountains climb
As I ride ol' number nine.
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When I die please bury me deep
Down at the end of bleecker street
So I can hear ol' number nine
As she goes rollin' by.
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Peter Paul And Mary performs "Freight Train", and this lyric page sits inside the Peter Paul And Mary catalog on LyroVerse.
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