Freight Train Blues

Freight Train Blues - Carolyn Hester/Bob Dylan

I was born in dixie in a boomer's shack

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train was it taught me how to cry

The holler of the driver was my lullaby

I've got the freight train blues (hee hee hoo)

Oh lawdy mama got em on the bottom

Of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows i gotta go

Baby don't you know

It looks like i'm never gonna lose

The freight train blues

Well my daddy was a fireman and my mama hear

She was the only daughter of the engineer

My sweetheart loved the brakeman and that ain't no joke

I'ts a shame the way she keeps a good man broke

I got the freight train blues (hee hee hoo)

Oh lawdy i got em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows i gotta go

Oh mama don't you know

Well it looks like i'm never gonna lose

The freight train blues

Well the only thing that makes you laugh again

Is a south bound whistle on a south bound train

Every place i want to go

I never can go because you know

Because i got the freight train blues (hee hee hoo)

Oh lawdy mama got em on the bottom of my ramblin' shoes