| I was born in Dixie in a boomer’s shack | 
| Just a little shanty by the railroad track | 
| Freight train whistle taught me how to cry | 
| Hummin' of the driver was my lullaby | 
| I got the freight train blues | 
| Lordy lordy lordy, I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes | 
| And when the whistle blows, I got to go Oh lordy don’t you know it It looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues | 
| Well, my daddy was a farmer and my mama dear | 
| She was the only daughter of the engineer | 
| My sweetie was a brakeman and it ain’t no joke | 
| It’s a shame the way they keep a good man broke | 
| I got the freight train blues | 
| I got the freight train blues | 
| I got the freight train | 
| Well, my daddy was a farmer and my mama dear | 
| she was the only daughter of the engineer | 
| My sweetie was a brakeman and it ain’t no joke | 
| It’s a shame the way they keeps a good man broke | 
| I got the freight train blues | 
| Lordy lordy lordy, I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes | 
| And when the whistle blows, I got to go Oh lordy don’t you know it Looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues | 
| Well the whistle blows I gotta go Oh lordy don’t you know it, | 
| Looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues | 
| Well the only thing that makes me laugh I guess | 
| Is the southbound whistle on the southbound train | 
| The only place I want to go and I can’t go I got the freight train blues | 
| Lordy lordy lordy, I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes | 
| And when the whistle blows, I got to go Oh lordy don’t you know I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues |