Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train скачать видео бесплатно

When Elizabeth Cotten and her brothers were playing music together each would have songs that they called their own, and Freight Train was one that she made up and sang as hers. It was one of the few she ever composed herself and was largely inspired by the train running near her home. She sang the song in Washington and it was subsequently popularized by Peggy Seeger, Nancy Whiskey, and Rusty Draper. - Mike Seeger

Lyrics:

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

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Learn more about Elizabeth Cotten here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cotten

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