Freight Train Blues

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shed

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train was it taught me how to cry

The holler of the driver was my lullaby

I got the freight train blues

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes

And when the whistle blows I got to go

Baby don't you know

Well, it looks like I'm never going to lose

The freight train blues

Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama-ha

She was the only daughter of an engineer

My sweetheart was a brakeman and it ain't no joke

Seems a waste to get a good man broke

I got the freight train blues

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes

And when the whistle blows I got to go

Mama don't you know

Well it looks like I'm never going to lose

The freight train blues

Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again

Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train

Every place I want to go

I never can go

Because you know I got the freight train blues

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes