Lyrics:

I was born in dixie in a boomer? shack,

Just a little old shanty by arailroadtrack,

The humminof the drivers was my lullaby,

And a freight train whistle taught mehow tocry.



Chorus:

I?e got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,

Got ?m in the bottom of myramblin shoes,

Andwhen that whistle blows, I?e gotta go,

oh! lordy!guess I? never gonnalose,

Themean oldfreight trainblues.



now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear,

Was the only daughter of anengineer,

My sister married a brakeman and it ain? no joke,

Now it? a shame the way she keeps agood manbroke.



Chorus:

I?e got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,

Got ?m in the bottom of myramblin shoes,

And when the whistle blows, I?e gotta go,

oh! lordy!guess I? never gonnalose,

Themean oldfreight trainblues.