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'm going
When I'm dead and in my grave No more good times here I crave Place the stones at my head and feet And tell them all that I'm gone to sleep
When I die Lord bury me deep Way down on old Chestnut Street So I can hear old Number Nine As she comes rolling by
When I die Lord bury me deep Way down on old Chestnut Street Place the stones at my head and feet And tell them all that I've gone to sleep
These lyrics are in the Old-Time String Band Songbook (Cohen-Seeger-Wood), Oak Publications 1964, 1975 (Page 120) and are an exact transcription of the Libba Cotten studio recording.