Freight Train Blues Lyrics - Jimmy Dean

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack 

Just a little shanty by the railroad track 

The humming of the drivers was my lullaby 

And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry 

I got the freight train blues, lawdy, lawdy, lawdy 

Got them in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes 

And when the whistle blows, I gotta go 

Oh lawdy, I guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues 

Now my pappy was a fireman 

And my mammy dear was the only daughter of an engineer 

My sweetie is 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, lawdy, lawdy, lawdy 

Got them in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes 

And when the whistle blows, I gotta go 

Oh lawdy, I guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues