I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track. The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry. Was the only daughter of ...

Born Elizabeth Nevills in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, around 1893, Cotten saved money from her jobs as a babysitter and domestic worker and bought her first guitar ... “Freight Train,” a ...

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their ... As tracks began to snake their way across the continent during the 1800s, songs were composed to hail the coming of the ...