Freight Train Blues - Alternate - Roy Acuff

I was born in Dixie in a boomer’s shack

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train whistle taught me how to cry

Hummin' of the driver was my lullaby

I got the freight train blues

Lordy lordy lordy, I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows, I got to go Oh lordy don’t you know it It looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues

Well, my daddy was a farmer and my mama dear

She was the only daughter of the engineer

My sweetie was a brakeman and it ain’t no joke

It’s a shame the way they keep a good man broke

I got the freight train blues

I got the freight train blues

I got the freight train

Well, my daddy was a farmer and my mama dear

she was the only daughter of the engineer

My sweetie was a brakeman and it ain’t no joke

It’s a shame the way they keeps a good man broke

I got the freight train blues

Lordy lordy lordy, I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows, I got to go Oh lordy don’t you know it Looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues

Well the whistle blows I gotta go Oh lordy don’t you know it,

Looks like I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues

Well the only thing that makes me laugh I guess

Is the southbound whistle on the southbound train

The only place I want to go and I can’t go I got the freight train blues

Lordy lordy lordy, I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes

And when the whistle blows, I got to go Oh lordy don’t you know I’m never gonna lose the freight train blues