Freight train, freight train going so fast,
freight train, freight train going so fast.
Please don't say what train I'm on
so they won't know what route I have gone.

When I die please bury me deep
down at the end of Chestnut Street.
So I can hear old Number Nine
as it goes rolling on by.

Freight train, freight train going so fast,
freight train, freight train going so fast.
Please don't say what train I'm on
so they won't know what route I have gone.