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Freight Train

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten
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OriginalLa versione di Massimo Liberatori
FREIGHT TRAIN


Freight train, freight train run so fast
Freight train, freight train run so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
They won't know what route I'm gone

When I'm dead and in my grave
No more good times here I crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
And tell them all I've gone to sleep

When I die, Lord, bury me deep
Way down on old Chestnut Street
Then I can hear old Number Nine
As she comes rolling by

Freight train, freight train run so fast
Freight train, freight train run so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
They won't know what route I'm gone
UN TRENO MERCI PER ELISABETH (Freight train)

Freight train freight train run so fast
Freight train freight train run so fast
please don’t tell what train i’m on
just tell me where i’m bound

Corri treno merci corri veloce
treno merci che mi strozzi la voce
io salgo a bordo come fossi un pacco clandestino
ma coi sogni resistenti anche al sole del mattino

Vecchio numero nove portaci con te
ancora sulla montagna portaci con te
prendi quella curva dove nessun occhio ci insegue
prendi quella curva e scompariamo insieme

When i die bury me deep
down at the end of chestnut street
tell my friends that when i’m gone
when i’m gone, i’m just going home

Quando arriverà il treno alla stazione
sarà solo il silenzio a riempire quel vagone
ma voi sul binario morto pensateci a dormire
dite a tutti che noi siamo qui a dormire

Elisabeth dice che il Signore arriverà
e che sulla via delle castagne lui ci cullerà
col vecchio treno numero nove ci ruoterà intorno
e cullerà quel treno il nostro sonno profondo
UN TRENO MERCI PER ELISABETH (Freight train)

Freight train freight train run so fast
Freight train freight train run so fast
please don’t tell what train i’m on
just tell me where i’m bound


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