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Jenny Dreamed Of Trains
When Jenny was a little girl she only dreamed of trains
She never played with dolls or lacy kinds of things
Jenny
counted boxcars instead of countin' sheep
She could go anywhere when she went to sleep
All she ever talked about
was gettin' on to ride
She was livin' in another time you could see it in her eyes
Everyday after school she'd head
down to the tracks
Waitin' for the train that was never comin' back
Jenny dreamed of trains
When the nighttime
came
Nobody knew how she made it come true
Jenny dreamed of trains
The depot's been boarded up, the rails have
turned to rush
There hasn't been a train through here since the mill went bust
No one believed her when she said she
heard the train
She was just a little girl actin' kinda strange
Jenny dreamed of trains
When the nighttime came
Nobody
knew how she made it come true
Jenny dreamed of trains
Jenny laid a penny on the track one day
In God we trust
she walked away
The very next mornin' all that she could find
Was a little piece of copper squashed flatter than a dime
Jenny
dreamed of trains
When the nighttime came
Nobody knew how she made it come true
Jenny dreamed of trains
Nobody
knew how she made it come true
Jenny dreamed of trains.
a note:
at the end of Jenny Dreamed Of Trains Vince plays a short instrumental which segues into a piece
of the melody line from the song Freight Train, written by Elizabeth Cotton, we're including the lyrics of the very fine song.
Freight Train
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Please don't tell what train
I'm on
They won't know what route I'm going
When I'm dead and in my grave
No more good times here I crave
Place
the stones at my head and feet
And tell them all I've gone to sleep
When I die, oh bury me deep
Down at the end
of old Chestnut Street
So I can hear old Number Nine
As she comes rolling by
When I die, oh bury me deep
Down
at the end of old Chestnut Street
Place the stones at my head and feet
And tell them all I've gone to sleep
Freight
train, freight train, run so fast
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
They
won't know what route I'm going.
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(1895-1987)
wrote her well-known song "Freight Train"
at the age of 11 and sang it nearly
80 years. Through
her songwriting,
her quietly commanding
personality,
and her unique
left-handed guitar
and banjo
styles, she has inspired
and influenced generations
of
younger artists.
the extensive Wikipedia entry
on this remarkable woman
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