Pete Seeger - Living In the Country Lyrics

Lyrics Living In the Country - Pete Seeger



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You know the guitar came to Europe with the gypsies 700 years ago
Spain brought the guitar to Mexico 400 years ago
U.S.A. picked a quarrel with Mexico and got Texas and California
And it also got the guitar and the guitar got us
It was Afro American people in the south
That worked out this way of playing it though
You know in Europe they usually play a guitar
But the Afro American peple worked out a way to play it
Just like a drum band
The base strings were played by a thumb with a steady beat
And the top strings were played
With the finger and got all the little off beats
Up in Syracuse there's a 92 year old woman
Who wrote a song, which some of you may know
She plays it, who knows it?
Freight train, freight train goin' so fast
Freight train, freight train goin' so fast
Please don't tell them which train I'm on
So they won't know which route I've gone
When I die just bury me deep
Down at the foot of old Chestnut Street
So I can hear old number nine
As she goes roaring by
Freight train, freight train goin' so fast
Freight train, freight train goin' so fast
Please don't tell them which train I'm on
So they won't know which route I've gone
When I'm dead and in my grave
No more good times do I crave
Place the tombstone at my head and my feet
Tell my friends that I've gone to sleep
Freight train, freight train goin' so fast
Freight train, freight train goin' so fast
Please don't tell them which train I'm on
So they won't know which route I've gone



Writer(s): Peter Seeger


Pete Seeger - A Link In the Chain
Album A Link In the Chain
date of release
03-09-1996

1 Living In the Country
2 My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away
3 Get Up and Go
4 Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
5 Never Wed An Old Man
6 Queen Anne Front
7 Cryderville Jail
8 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
9 This Land Is Your Land
10 Draft Dodger Rag
11 The Pill
12 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
13 My Name Is Liza Kalvelage
14 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
15 Guantanamera
16 Last Train to Nuremberg
17 Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
18 Oh, Freedom
19 We Shall Overcome
20 Coal Creek March
21 Pretty Boy Floyd
22 Hobo's Lullaby
23 Aimee Semple McPherson
24 The Cowboy's Lament
25 Jesse James
26 Belle Starr
27 Harry Sims
28 Mrs. McGrath
29 Jay Goulds Daughter
30 Nameless Lick
31 What Did You Learn In School Today?
32 Henry My Son
33 Put Your Finger In The Air
34 Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
35 This Old Car
36 Be Kind To Your Parents
37 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase




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