I just came down from Chippewa
Had a station wagon and a hundred dollars
Thinking about the girl I´d lost a year before
I hadn´t seen her for some time
Thought I might go on by

When your memory came flooding in and you closed that door

Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I´d come whistling down your track crashing in your doorway
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn´t have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

Well every time I talk to you I hear your jealous lines
I feel like I´ve been left abandoned on some old railway side

And every time I hear your voice my water just gets cold
My stoker will not stoke and my boiler will not boil

Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I´d come whistling down your track crashing in your doorway
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn´t have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

Well every time I fell behind I could not get ahead

I wish someone would pull the lever and give me a little sand
And every time I slip behind even further back
I wish some switch man would come out of the fog and change my track

Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I´d come whistling down your track crashing in your doorway
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn´t have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I´d come whistling down your track crashing in your doorway
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn´t have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train