Standard (EADGBE)

Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast,

freight train, freight train, goin' so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on,

 so they won't know where I'm gone.

Freight train, freight train, goin' round the bend,

freight train, freight train, comin' back again

One of these days turn that train around,

 and go back to my home town.

One more place I'd like to be,

one more place I'd like to see

 To watch them old Blue Ridge Mountains climb,

 when I ride old Number Nine.

When I die Lord, bury me deep,

down at the end of Chestnut Street

Where I can hear old Number Nine,

 as she comes down the line.

Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast,

freight train, freight train, goin' so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on,

 so they won't know where I'm gone.