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

Hee hee hoo

Oh Lawdy mama got 'em

On the bottom of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows I gotta go

Baby don't you know

It looks like I'm never gonna lose

The freight train blues

Well my daddy was a fireman and my mama here

She was the only daughter of the engineer

My sweetheart loved the brakeman and that ain't no joke

It's 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' shoes