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(Traditional) |
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You know the guitar came to Europe with the gypsies 700 years ago |
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Spain brought the guitar to Mexico 400 years ago |
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U.S.A. picked a quarrel with Mexico and got Texas and California |
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And it also got the guitar and the guitar got us |
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It was Afro American people in the south |
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That worked out this way of playing it though |
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You know in Europe they usually play a guitar |
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But the Afro American peple worked out a way to play it |
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Just like a drum band |
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The base strings were played by a thumb with a steady beat |
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And the top strings were played |
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With the finger and got all the little off beats |
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Up in Syracuse there's a 92 year old woman |
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Who wrote a song, which some of you may know |
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She plays it, who knows it? |
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Freight train, freight train goin' so fast |
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Freight train, freight train goin' so fast |
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Please don't tell them which train I'm on |
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So they won't know which route I've gone |
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When I die just bury me deep |
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Down at the foot of old Chestnut Street |
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So I can hear old number nine |
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As she goes roaring by |
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Freight train, freight train goin' so fast |
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Freight train, freight train goin' so fast |
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Please don't tell them which train I'm on |
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So they won't know which route I've gone |
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When I'm dead and in my grave |
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No more good times do I crave |
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Place the tombstone at my head and my feet |
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Tell my friends that I've gone to sleep |
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Freight train, freight train goin' so fast |
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Freight train, freight train goin' so fast |
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Please don't tell them which train I'm on |
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So they won't know which route I've gone |
