[ti:Freight Train Blues] [ar:Roy Acuff] [al:Freight Train Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Freight Train Blues - Roy Acuff [00:10.06]I was born in Dixie in a boomers shack [00:12.72]Just a little old shanty by a railroad track [00:15.54]The hummin of the drivers was my lullaby [00:18.07]And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry [00:23.02]I've got the freight train blues Lordy Lordy Lordy [00:28.52]Got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes [00:34.25]And when that whistle blows I've gotta go [00:37.37]Oh Lordy guess I'm never gonna lose [00:40.13]The mean old freight train blues [00:43.52]Now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear [00:46.41]Was the only daughter of an engineer [00:49.05]My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke [00:51.81]Now it's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke [00:56.46]I've got the freight train blues Lordy Lordy Lordy [01:01.93]Got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes [01:07.48]And when that whistle blows I've gotta go [01:10.60]Oh Lordy guess I'm never gonna lose [01:13.39]The mean old freight train blues [01:41.28]I've got the freight train blues Lordy Lordy Lordy [01:46.96]Got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes [01:52.17]And when that whistle blows I've gotta go [01:55.25]Oh Lordy guess I'm never gonna lose [01:57.76]The mean old freight train blues [02:12.76]I've got the freight train blues Lordy Lordy Lordy [02:18.27]Got em in the bottom of my ramblin shoes [02:23.87]And when that whistle blows I've gotta go [02:26.82]Oh Lordy guess I'm never gonna lose [02:29.36]The mean old freight train blues