Well I just came down from Chippewa   I had a station wagon and a hundred dollars   I was thinkin' about the girl I'd lost a year before   I hadn't seen her for some time   I thought that I might go on by   When your memory came floodin' in   And you closed that door      [CHORUS:]      Wish I was a freight train baby   Wish I was a diesel locomotive   I'd come whistlin' down your track   Crashin' in your door   Wish I was a freight train baby   Wish I didn't have a heart   And you'd need a shovel for the coal   Just to get me started   Wish I was a freight train baby   Wish I was a freight train       Well every time I talk to you   And I hear your jealous lies   I feel like I've been left abandoned   On some old railway side   And every time I hear your voice   My water just gets cold   My stoker will not stoke   And my boiler will not boil      [CHORUS]      Well every time I fell behind   And I could not get ahead   I wish someone would pull the lever   And give me a little sand   And every time I slip behind   Even further back   I wish some switchman would come out of the fog   And change my track      Wish I was a freight train baby   Wish I was a diesel locomotive   I'd come whistlin' down your track   Crashin' in your door   Wish I was a freight train baby   Wish I didn't have a heart   And you'd need a shovel for the coal   Just to get me started   Wish I was a freight train baby   Wish I was a freight train . . .