Yonder Comes a Freight Train

Hopped a freight train out of

Nashville, rode it up to

Ohio. Made my way to

Detroit City where

I stayed a week or so.

Hauled a ride to

Chicago with a truck drivin' man.

An' I stayed there for the summer, singin' with a

Country band.

Every time

I hear a freight train lonesome whistle blow,

I think about the good man

I got waitin' on me at home.

Yonder comes a freight train,

Movin' on down the line.

Yonder comes a freight train,

Listen to that engine whine.

I'm gettin' off that old train:

I'm goin' back to that good, good man of mine.

Instrumental break.

Hopped the freight out of

Chicago, thought that it was southern bound.

Ended up in

New York City where we travel underground.

Caught a ride with a crew truck, went from

Charlotte to

L.A.. Made my way back to

Atlanta but

I wasn't there to stay.

Thumbed a ride with a couple goin' to see

River Falls.

Only thirty miles from

Nashville, well,

I'll get back if

I have to crawl.

Yonder comes a freight train,

Movin' on down the line.

Yonder comes a freight train,

Listen to that engine whine.

I'm gettin' off that old train:

I'm goin' back to that good, good man of mine.

Instrumental

Break Yonder comes a freight train,

Movin' on down the line.

Yonder comes a freight train,

Listen to that engine whine.

I'm gettin' off that old train:

I'm goin' back to that good, good man of mine.

I'm gettin' off that old train:

I'm goin' back.