Freight Train Chords & Tabs

by Elizabeth Cotten

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Freight Train chords
Elizabeth Cotton  1906 - 1912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_Train_(folk_song)
Open or capo * to suit your voice
C                             G7            
Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast,
G                             C            
freight train, freight train, goin' so fast
E7                     F            
Please don't tell what train I'm on,
        C          G7        C    
so they won't know where I'm gone.
C                             G7                   
Freight train, freight train, goin' round the bend,
G                             C                
freight train, freight train, comin' back again
E7                          F            
One of these days turn that train around,
       C       G7      C    
and go back to my home town.
C              G7             
One more place I'd like to be,
G              C              
one more place I'd like to see
   E7                        F               
To watch them old Blue Ridge Mountains climb,
       C        G7     C    
when I ride old Number Nine.
C                G7           
When I die Lord, bury me deep,
G                  C              
down at the end of Chestnut Street
E7                   F           
Where I can hear old Number Nine,
   C         G7       C    
as she comes down the line.
C                             G7            
Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast,
G                             C            
freight train, freight train, goin' so fast
E7                     F            
Please don't tell what train I'm on,
        C          G7        C    
so they won't know where I'm gone.
Alternates:
Capo III
C  = A
G7   E7
G  = E
E7   C#7
F  = D
Capo V
C  = G
G7   D7
G  = D
E7   B7
F  = C
Open (These chords are not in the original key)
C  = D
G7   A7
G  = A
E7   F#7
F  = G
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