Episode 44: Freight Train

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Cotten became a music star pretty late in her life. In fact, she was a grandmother. But when she was 11 she wrote a song that made it's way across the ocean and was learned by a band called The Quarrymen, who later became The Beatles. Enjoy the story of both, along with Mick's performance of "Freight Train" and more!

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0:00.0	Hainty, Hainny, Hainny, Bothers Coffee, Hainny, Hainny, Hainny, Hainny
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0:53.0	So I just put the lime and the coconut?
1:00.0	Okay, I'll try it. I'll, yeah. just put the lime and the coconut?
1:03.0	Okay, I'll try it.
1:04.6	Yeah, I'll call you in the morning.
1:05.9	I gotta go.
1:07.4	Hey everybody, this is Mick, and it is almost June of 2020.
1:11.6	I sincerely hope things are okay where you are. It's been a challenge for me to find the time to create this episode.
1:19.0	But I did it. It did it in between working from home, which is filled with my family and there's
1:24.7	almost never a quiet moment. Even now you can probably actually hear my washing
1:29.2	machine as it was suggested by someone on Twitter maybe I should just do an episode about washing machines, so who knows maybe that'll be a fun one next month
1:38.4	This episode is not about washing machines though this episode is titled freightight Train, but it's not about
1:44.1	trains at all that's kind of deceptive sorry if I fooled you it's actually about a
1:48.6	song called Freight Train and that song connects both of the stories.
1:52.6	The first story is about Elizabeth Cotton,
1:55.0	and the second story is about a little man from Liverpool
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