Freight Train Blues

(x2) 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 lullaby I got the freight train blues Oh Lordy mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes And when the whistle blows I gotta 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 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