Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

Elizabeth Cotten's self-taught, upside-down, left-handed guitar style made her one of the most original guitar and banjo players in the history of American folk music. Her song "Freight Train" has been played by most fingerpickers from Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau to Mike Seeger. "Oh Babe Ain't No Lie" is another original composition. Like "Freight Train" it is played in the key of C using first position chords. But this has a verse and chorus structure. The tune was a staple in The Grateful Dead's repertoire.