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  • Freight train blues written by john lair 1935. recorded by roy acuffs
  • Crazy tennesseans 1936, dynamite hatcher vocal, acuff mimics the train
  • Whistle.
  • This is hank williams 1939-40 version on the 10 cd box set from mercury.
  • (c) I was born in dixie in a boomers shack,
  • Just a little old shanty by a (g7) railroad (c) track,
  • The hummin of the drivers was my lullaby,
  • And a freight train whistle taught me (g7) how to (c) cry.
  • Chorus:
  • (c) Ive got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,
  • Got em in the bottom of my (d7) ramblin (g7) shoes,
  • And (c) when that whistle blows, Ive gotta go, (c7)
  • (f) oh! lordy! (c) guess Im never gonna (a7) lose,
  • The (d7) mean old (g7) freight train (c) blues.
  • (c) now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear,
  • Was the only daughter of an (g7) en-gin- (c) eer,
  • My sister married a brakeman and it aint no joke,
  • Now its a shame the way she keeps a (g7) good man (c) broke.
  • Chorus: (one word changed, that whistle, to, the whistle.)
  • (c) Ive got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,
  • Got em in the bottom of my (d7) ramblin (g7) shoes,
  • And(c) when the whistle blows, Ive gotta go, (c7)
  • (f) oh! lordy! (c) guess Im never gonna (a7) lose,
  • The (d7) mean old (g7) freight train (c) blues.

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