(First release?Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)

I was born in Dixie in a boomer´s shack,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track

Freight train whistle taught me how to cry,
The holler of the driver was my lullaby.
I´ve got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy mama got em on the bottom of my ramblin´ shoes

And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Baby don´t you know
It looks like I´m never gonna lose
The freight train blues.

Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama dear
She was the only daughter of the engineer
My sister loved the brakeman and that ain´t no joke
Its a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy I got em in the bottom of my ramblin´ 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 you laugh again
Is a south bound whistle on a south bound train
Every place I want to go
I never can go because you know
Because I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy mama, got em on the bottom of my ramblin´ shoes