{"id":8381,"date":"2019-09-01T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:00:06","slug":"freight-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8381","title":{"rendered":"Freight Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Freight Train.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Freight Train.mp3\"><br \/>\nFreight Train &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n Elizabeth &#8220;Libba\u201d Cotten composed \u201cFreight Train\u201d as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The song has been recorded by Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary and countless others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\nFreight train, freight train, run so fast<br \/>\nFreight train, freight train, run so fast<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t tell what train I&#8217;m on<br \/>\nThey won&#8217;t know what route I&#8217;m going<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m dead and in my grave<br \/>\nNo more good times here I crave<br \/>\nPlace the stones at my head and feet<br \/>\nAnd tell them all I&#8217;ve gone to sleep<\/p>\n<p>When I die, oh bury me deep<br \/>\nDown at the end of old Chestnut Street<br \/>\nSo I can hear old Number Nine<br \/>\nAs she comes rolling by<\/p>\n<p>When I die, oh bury me deep<br \/>\nDown at the end of old Chestnut Street<br \/>\nPlace the stones at my head and feet<br \/>\nAnd tell them all I&#8217;ve gone to sleep<\/p>\n<p>Freight train, freight train, run so fast<br \/>\nFreight train, freight train, run so fast<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t tell what train I&#8217;m on<br \/>\nThey won&#8217;t know what route I&#8217;m going<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Freight Train &#8211; Click To Play Elizabeth &#8220;Libba\u201d Cotten composed \u201cFreight Train\u201d as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in North Carolina. The song has been recorded by Joan Baez, Peter Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freight Train&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8977,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}