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
The holler of the driver was my lullaby

I got the freight train blues
Oh Lordy mama, got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
And when the whistle blows I got to go baby, don´t you know
Well, it looks like I´m never gonna lose the freight train blues

Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama-her
She was the only daughter of an engineer
My sweetheart was 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
Oh Lordy mama, got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
And when the whistle blows I got to go woah mama, don´t you know
Well, it looks like I´m never going to lose the freight train blues

Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again
Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train
Every place I want to go I never can´t go
Because you know

I got the freight train blues
Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes