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   [ guitar - fiddle - steel ]   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...