Freight Train chords
Elizabeth Cotton  1906 - 1912

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_Train_(folk_song)

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Freight train,

              
 freight train

  
, goin' so fas

t,
             
freight train,

              
 freight train

  
, goin' so fas

t
            
Please don't t

         
ell what train

 I'm on,
             
so they won't 

            
know where I'm

 
 gone.

             
Freight train,

              
 freight train

  
, goin' round 

the bend,
             
freight train,

              
 freight train

  
, comin' back 

again
            
One of these d

              
ays turn that 


train around,
             
and go back to

       
 my home town.

             
One more place

 
 I'd like to b

e,
             
one more place

 
 I'd like to s

ee
            
To watch them 

              
old Blue Ridge

 
 Mountains cli

mb,
             
when I ride ol

       
d Number Nine.

             
When I die Lor

   
d, bury me dee

p,
             
down at the en

     
d of Chestnut 

Street
            
Where I can he

       
ar old Number 

Nine,
            
as she comes d

       
own the line.

             
Freight train,

              
 freight train

  
, goin' so fas

t,
             
freight train,

              
 freight train

  
, goin' so fas

t
            
Please don't t

         
ell what train

 I'm on,
             
so they won't 

            
know where I'm

 
 gone.

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