Go to the Working Theater production
on the history of train tracks
and the stories of all the people
who built them and hear
about a young black girl
named Elizabeth Cotton
from Carrboro, North Carolina
wrote the song Freight Train
and then she married and became
a nanny and worked for many
years and when she was in her sixties
she worked as a nanny for the Seeger family
and finally, someone heard her song.
From Kareem Abdul Jabaar, and he’s right:|
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Your words and her fingers on that guitar are what I needed today.
love the poem. love the song. my favorite train museum in scranton, pa. is worth the trip-xx