FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES

(Bob Dylan Arrangement - 1961)

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shed,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track.
Freight train was it taught me how to cry.
Holler of the driver was a-my lullaby.
I got the freight train blues.
Oh Lawdy 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,
She was the only daughter of the 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 Lawdy mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling 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 me laugh again
Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train.
Ev'ry place I wanna go,
I never can go, because, you know,
I got the freight train blues.
Oh Lawdy mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes.

Copyright © 1961

1962