Freight Train Blues

Intro: 
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|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]