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I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train whistle taught me how to cry
hummin' of the driver was my lulla by
I got the freight train blues
Oh Lordy mama, I got them in the bottom of m y ramblin g shoes
And when the whistle blows I gotta go baby, don't you know
Well, it looks like I'm never gonn a lose the freight trai n blues.
Well my daddy was a fireman and my mama hear
She was the only daughter of the engineer
My sweetheart loved the brakeman and that ain't no joke
Its 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
Well 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
Every place I want to go
I never can 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' shoe