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Chas Mcdevitt Skiffle Group - Freight Train



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Chas Mcdevitt Skiffle Group - Freight Train
Misc Unsigned Bands
Freight Train - Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group
Featured Nancy Whiskey on vocal

Label: Oriole 
Composers: James, Williams
Based on the Elizabeth Cotton version.
Reached #5 in 1957 in the UK, and #40 in the US, one of the hits
in the UK skiffle boom - Washboard percussion, tea-chest broomstick bass
and banjo/guitar. First band for a lot of us oldies. 
Don't forget to whistle.

Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
  I don't know what train he's on
Won't you tell me where he's gone
 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

#1:
Don't know where he's headin for
What he's done against the law
 Got no future, got no hope
Just nothin but the rope
 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
  I don't know what train he's on
Won't you tell me where he's gone
 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

#2:
He lost his reason, lost his life
He killed his friend in mortal strife
 He must have moved like the rollin' skies
Just a-waitin til he dies

 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
  I don't know what train he's on
Won't you tell me where he's gone
 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

#3:
When he dies, just bury him please
Way down the end of old Chestnut Street
 Poplars at his head and feet
And tell them he's gone to sleep

 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
Freight train, freight train, goin so fast
  I don't know what train he's on
Won't you tell me where he's gone
 OOOO OOO  OOOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOOO
OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO

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