FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES
(John Lair)

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
The humming of the drivers was my lullaby
And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry

I got the freight train blues lawdy lawdy lawdy
Got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
And when the whistle blows I gotta go
Oh lawdy guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues

My daddy was a fireman and my mammy dear
Was the only daughter of an engineer
My sweetie is a brakeman and it ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke

I got the freight train blues...
[ harmonica ]
I know I'm old enough to quit this running round
I've tried a hundred times to stop and settle down
But every time I find a place I'd like to stay
I hear a freight train whistle and I'm on my way

I got the freight train blues...
[ harmonica ]
I got the freight train blues...
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