I was born in dixie in a boomer's shack,

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train was comin' I had to cry,

Hummin all the drivers with my lullaby

I've got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)

Oh, lawdy mama got 'em on the bottom of my ramblin' 

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And when the whistle blows, I gotta go

Baby don't you know

It looks like I'm never gonna lose

The freight train blues.



Well, my daddy was a fireman in a house out here

She was the only daughter of the engineer

Sweetheart of the brakeman, that ain't no joke

It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.

I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)

Oh, lawdy I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes



And when the whistle blows, I gotta go

Oh mama don't you know

It looks like I'm never gonna lose

The freight train blues.



Well, the only thing that makes you laugh again

Is a south bound whistle on a south bound train

Ev'ry place I want to go

I never go because you know

Because I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)

Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em on the bottom of my ramblin' 

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