Freight Train Blues

I was born in Dixie in a boomer? s shack
 Just a little old shanty by a railroad track
 The hummin? of the drivers was my lullaby
 And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry
 I? ve got the freight train blues, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy
 Got? em in the bottom of my ramblin? shoes
 And when that whistle blows, I? ve gotta go
 Oh Lordy, guess I? m never gonna lose
 The mean old freight train blues
 Now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear
 Was the only daughter of an engineer
 My sister married a brakeman and it ain? t no joke
 Now it? s a shame the way she keeps a good man broke
 I? ve got the freight train blues, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy
 Got? em in the bottom of my ramblin? shoes
 And when that whistle blows, I? ve gotta go
 Oh Lordy, guess I? m never gonna lose
 The mean old freight train blues