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East Bound Freight Train

Source Recording: Don Reno, Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cutups (1960)

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Song Details

Songwriter
Grandpa Jones
First Release
Grandpa Jones (1946)
Song history
Genres
Country
Themes
Train Rambling
Attributes
Minor Chords Non-Diatonic
Popularity
Average

Source Recording

Artist
Don Reno, Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cutups
Album
Single (East Bound Freight Train) (1960)
Key G Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 102 BPM Length 2:40 ISRC USACU0509255
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East Bound Freight Train

1 5 1
I never was so lonesome for my hometown
5 1
Seems I never was so far away
4 1
Now I can hear that freight train a’blowin’
2 5
I’ll be gone before the break of day
1 5 1
I’ll have to quit my daily ramblin’
4 3
So tonight I’m gonna start my journey back
4 1 6m
Sitting on the top of an old box car
2 5 1
Sailing down that silvery stream of track

1 4
East bound freight train, east bound freight train
1 5
Take me home again
1 4
East bound freight train, east bound freight train
1 5 1
Let me stay ’til the end

Now I’ll never stray far from my hometown
Never leave again to roam
I know I was born to wander
But I’m gonna stick around my home
Now I can see the smoke a-rollin’
Out of that old smoke stack
I’m sitting on the top of an old box car
Sailing down that silvery stream of track

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