"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle [1] period of the 1950s and 1960s.

2019年5月1日 · “Freight Train” was cred­it­ed for years to two British song­writ­ers, who claimed it as their own in the mid-fifties. How­ev­er, not only did Cot­ten write the song, but she did so decades ear­li­er when she was only 11 or 12 years old.

2022年8月29日 · To her astonished audience, Cotten played a tune in a ragtime style and also sang her old song: “Freight Train”. In 1957 it was recorded by family group The Seegers as “Freight Train...

Old Freight Train Lloyd Snow with Lyrics

2024年10月27日 · In his book, "The American Freight Train," author Jim Boyd notes railroads began experimenting with highway trailers on flatcars as early as the 1920s while Mike Schafer points out in "More Classic American Railroads" that Chicago Great Western, one of the great industrial pioneers, began regularly offering TOFC service as early as 1936.

2016年3月19日 · All of which is interesting enough, but “Freight Train” was by far her best-known song – indeed, so well known that I considered it trite and overdone.

Old Freight Train Lyrics: Sometimes my mind will wander to a time and place when I was just a boy / And I'd camp along the railroad track just to watch the trains come rollin' by / And I'd...

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner Records That Old Freight Train (2007 Remaster) · Lee Hazlewood Strung Out On Something New: The Reprise Recordings ℗ 1965 Reprise Records Writer: Lee...

Old School Freight Train (OSFT) was a Charlottesville, Virginia-based band that combined bluegrass, jazz, Latin, and Celtic sounds to create their music.

A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers. Freight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) which carry freight.