I was born in Dixie in a boomer shed
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Just a little shanty by the railroad track
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Freight train was it taught me how to cry
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The holler of the driver was my lullaby
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I got the freight train blues
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Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
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And when the whistle blows I gotta go baby, don't you know
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Well, 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-ha
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She was the only daugther of an enginer
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My sweetheart was a brakeman and it ain't no joke
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Seems a waste to get a good man broke
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I got the freight train blues
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Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
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And when the whistle blows I gotta go mama, don't you know
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Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues.
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Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again
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Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train
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Every place I wanna go I never can go
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Because you know I got the freight train blues
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Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes.
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Freight Train Blues
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| Bob Dylan |
