There were seventeen cars out in my back yard,    The boys in blue are calling my name,    Semi-automatic up on the rooftop,    They just to want to talk to me,    I told them what they wanted to hear,    The only thing that I knew:    Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.    Everywhere you look, there's a train wreck, baby,    Everywhere you look, there's a runaway train,    Play my heart like a bottleneck, baby,    Running up and down and pulling its strings.    Everywhere you go, everybody knows,    You're looking for someone to do.    Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.    If I was a switchman, if I was a brakeman,    If I was an engineer,    I'd point that train on down the track    And clear on out of here.    If I was the man swinging the lantern,    I'd swing it 'til it was blue.    Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.       Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.    Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.    Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.    Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive    Couldn't drag me back to you.