Freight Train Blues

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train was it taught me how to cry

Hummin' 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 gotta go baby don't you know

Well it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues

Well my daddy was a fireman and my old ma here

She was the only daughter of the engineer

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

It's a shame the way she keeps 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 gotta go oh mama don't you know

Well it looks like I'm never gonna 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