Freight Train (Live) - Intellectual

[Spoken Introduction]

I'm gonna do one more and then I’m gonna introduce that young man that brought me out here, some of you probably haven't met him

And he's gonna bring his guitar back to and we’ll pick some blues and things

This is one that Elizabeth Cotten wrote

A lady from down in North Carolina, kind of a sweet blues singing gal

Been here a long time, I don't know if Elizabeth is still around, or not

Last time I talked to her and heard her play she was in her early nineties and she could still pick good

This is called Freight Train

Freight train, freight train, coming down the line

Freight train, freight train, you got rambling on my mind

Hey fellas don't you tell them what train that I got on

And they won't know what road I'm gone

When I die you needn't bury me at all

Just pickle these old bones in alcohol

Honey don't you weep or don't you ever be sad

Just think about the good ol’ times we had

Freight train, freight train she’s coming down so fast

Oh freight train, freight train getting here at last

Hey now I said don't tell them what train that I got on

And they won’t know which way I've gone

When I die I guess you better bury me pretty deep

Way down at the end of old Chestnut Street

So I can hear old number nine

As she goes a rolling down the line