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This country has a great history of railroads |
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You know, goin' from one place to another |
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And some of our country's finest citizens lived across the tracks |
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It was no big thing but the railroad had a lot to do with it |
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You probably wondering about what I'm talking right now |
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I'm talkin' about a lady named Elizabeth Cotton |
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She wrote this song a long time ago when she was a young girl |
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She's still playin' guitar today and I'm gonna sing a few lines for you |
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We love you Elizabeth, love you Elizabeth |
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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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I don't know what train I'm on |
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Won't you tell me where I'm goin'? |
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When I die bury me deep |
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Down at the end of old Chestnut street |
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Tell all the people that I've done gone |
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And where I've gone I just don't know |
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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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I don't know what train I'm on |
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So won't you tell me where I'm goin'? |