Freight Train Tablature

Freight train tablature

Freight Train was written by Elizabeth Cotten in 1907 when she was 12 years old. She taught herself to play her older brother's guitar. He was right-handed, but she was left-handed, so played the guitar upside down. Despite this she became a serious player.

She stopped playing publicly for a long time, but was rediscovered by the Seegers during the 60s folk boom and her career took off again. She was still giving concerts when she was 90 years old.