Freight Train (Live)

Well, I guess many of you'll know me

I'm Elizabeth Cotten from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

That's my home, I was born and raised there

But now, right now, I'm making my home in Washington, D.C.

I've been there, living there about 30, two or three years, in Washington, D.C.

I'll guess I'll live there the rest of my life

'Cause all my people are there

My daughter, her children, all the granddaughters

My greats, and greats, and greats all there

And I want to tell y'all

I'm 85 years old, I was 85 the fifth of this January just past

Thank you, thank you so much

Y'all ever heard that before?

Everybody sing

Freight train, freight train (goin' so fast)

Freight train, freight train (goin' so fast)

Please don't tell what train I'm on

They won't know what route I'm gone

When I am dead and in my grave

No more good time here I crave

Place the stones at my head and feet

Tell them all that I'm gone to sleep

(Freight train, freight train goin' 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 die, Lord, bury me deep

Way down on old Chestnut Street

I can hear ol' number nine

As she comes rollin' by

Freight train, freight train (goin' so fast)

(Freight train, freight train goin' so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on

They won't know what route I'm gone)

Let's sing that verse once more and sing it a little louder

Let's everybody sing it

Freight train, freight train (goin' so fast)

Freight train, (freight train goin' so fast)

Please don't tell what train I'm on

They won't know what route I'm gone

Thank you very much