Lyrics:

If there were seventeen cars out in my back yard
the boys in blue were callin' my name
semi-automatics up on the rooftop
they just wanted to talk to me
I'd tell 'em what they wanted to hear
the only thing that I knew
forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive
couldn't bring me back to you

everywhere you go there's a train wreck baby
everywhere you go there's a runaway train
breaking my heart like a bottleneck baby
sliding up and down and and pulling its strings
everywhere you go everybody knows
you're looking for someone to do
forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive
couldn't bring me back to you

If I was a brakeman I was a switch man
If I was an engineer
I'd take that train on down the line
and clear on out of here
If I was the swingman swinging that lantern
I'd swing it 'til I was blue
forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive
couldn't bring me back to you