Freight Train Blues

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
 Hummin' of the drivers was my lullaby
 I got the freight train blues
 Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em in 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
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 Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama, her
 She was the only daughter of the engineer
 My sweetheart loved the brakeman and that ain't no joke
 It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke
 I got the freight train blues
 Oh, lawdy mama 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 me laugh again
 Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train
 Every place I want to go
 I never can go because, you know
 I got the freight train blues
 Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes