Freight Train Chords & Tabs
Freight Train
Arr.: Chet Atkins
Trans: Fríðrikur Ellefsen
This is how I saw CA perform on an austrilian tv show.
He played it on his acoustic gibson.
The year was 1997. He was teaching the narrator how to play it.
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/atkins_chet/freight_train_tab.html ]
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*this part is worth studying - and yes it is accurate!
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Fríðrikur Ellefsen