Freight Train Blues

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train was it taught me how to cry

Hummin' of the driver was my lullaby

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I got the freight train blues

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows I gotta go

Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues

Well my daddy was a fireman and my old ma here,

She was the only daughter of an engineer

My sweetheart loved a brakeman and it ain't no joke

It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke

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Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again

Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train

Every place I wanna go

I can never go, because you know

I got the freight train blues

(Chorus)

(Dylan/Lair) 1962