| I was born in dixie in a boomers shack,
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| Just a little shanty by the railroad track
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| Freight train was it taught me how to cry,
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| The holler of the driver was my lullaby.
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| Ive got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
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| Oh, lawdy mama got em on the bottom of my ramblin shoes
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| And when the whistle blows, I gotta go Baby dont you know
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| It looks like Im never gonna lose
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| The freight train blues.
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| Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama hear
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| She was the only daughter of the engineer
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| My sweetheart loved the brakeman and that aint no joke
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| Its a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
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| I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
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| Oh, lawdy I got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes
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| And when the whistle blows, I gotta go Oh mama dont you know
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| Well it looks like Im never gonna lose
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| The freight train blues.
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| Well, the only thing that makes you laugh again
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| Is a south bound whistle on a south bound train
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| Every place I want to go
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| I never can go because you know
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| Because I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
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| Oh, lawdy mama, got em on the bottom of my ramblin shoes |