(First release???Traditionalarranged by Bob Dylan)
I was born in Dixie in a boomer s shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train was it taught me how to cry
The holler of the driver was my lullaby.
I ve got the freight train blues (heeheehoo)
Ohlawdy mama got em on the bottom of my ramblin shoes
And when the whistle blowsI gotta go
Baby don t you know
It looks like I m never gonna lose
The freight train blues.
Wellmy 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 (heeheehoo)
Ohlawdy I got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes
And when the whistle blowsI gotta go
Oh mama don t you know
Well it looks like I m never gonna lose
The freight train blues.
Wellthe 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 (heeheehoo)
Ohlawdy mamagot em on the bottom of my ramblin shoes

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