Here's a studio recording by Elizabeth Cotten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8UN_6AUgCw


FREIGHT TRAIN
(Elizabeth Cotten)

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.

Live performance by Elizabeth Cotten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK8emiWabU