Freight Train Blues

I was born in Dixie in a boomers shack

Just a little old shanty by a railroad track

The hummin of the drivers was my lullaby

And a freight train whistle taught me how to cryIve got the freight train blues, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy

Got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes

And when that whistle blows, Ive gotta go

Oh Lordy, guess Im never gonna lose

The mean old freight train bluesNow my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear

Was the only daughter of an engineer

My sister married a brakeman and it aint no joke

Now its a shame the way she keeps a good man brokeIve got the freight train blues, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy

Got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes

And when that whistle blows, Ive gotta go

Oh Lordy, guess Im never gonna lose

The mean old freight train blues