There were seventeen cars out in my back yard, 

The boys in blue are calling my name, 

Semi-automatic up on the rooftop, 

They just to want to talk to me, 

I told them what they wanted to hear, 

The only thing that I knew: 

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you. 

Everywhere you look, there's a train wreck, baby, 

Everywhere you look, there's a runaway train, 

Play my heart like a bottleneck, baby, 

Running up and down and pulling its strings. 

Everywhere you go, everybody knows, 

You're looking for someone to do. 

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you. 

If I was a switchman, if I was a brakeman, 

If I was an engineer, 

I'd point that train on down the track 

And clear on out of here. 

If I was the man swinging the lantern, 

I'd swing it 'til it was blue. 

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you. 



Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you. 

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you. 

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you. 

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive 

Couldn't drag me back to you.