How To Play Elizabeth Cotten’s “Freight Train”

This video of Cotten playing this song is actually better, but the embedding is disabled.

I’ve been playing folk and Old Time music with a bunch of people (including two co-workers at the dog temple) on a regular basis here in Baltimore. “Freight Train” is one of the songs we jammed out on last Thursday night at the Copycat building. Over the weekend, I bought a big old book with over a thousand old folk songs in it, and it includes Cotten’s gem above. I also took a trip to some really old Maryland mills this weekend and took a couple pictures, which I’ll post when my friend sends them to me…

Here are some guitar tabs for this song, lyrics, and an instructional video on how to finger-pick it:


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