Freight Train Blues

Intro: 
|:(C) . . . |. . (G) (C) :| 
|(C) . . . |. . . . (D) |(G) . . . | 
|(C) . . . |(F) . . . |(C) . . (G) |(C) 
(C) 
I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack 
(G) (C) 
Just a little shanty by the railroad track 
(C) 
Freight train was it taught me how to cry 
(G) (C) 
hummin‘ of the driver was my lullaby 
 
I got the freight train blues 
(D) (G) 
Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes 
(C) (F) 
And when the whistle blows I gotta go baby, don‘t you know 
(C) (G) (C) 
Well, it looks like I‘m never gonna lose the freight train blues 
 
Well, my daddy was a fireman and my old ma here, 
She was the only daugther of an engineer 
My sweetheart loved a brakeman and it ain‘t no joke 
It‘s a shamethe way she keeps a good man broke 
I got the freight train blues 
Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling 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 wanna go 
I never can go, because you know 
I got the freight train blues 
Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes. 
 
[finish off with harp]