Freight Train Blues

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Roy Acuff and the Crazy Tenesseeans

Roy Acuff and the Crazy Tenneseeans recorded this song during October 1936. Sam "Dynamite" Hatcher was the vocalist and Roy Acuff supplied the train whistle. Roy had a successful career in country music.

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1936

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I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack,
Just a little shanty by the rail road tracks,
The humming of the drivers was my lullaby,
a freight train whistle taught me how to cry.

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I've got the freight train blues,
Lordy, lordy, lordy, I've got em in the bottom of my rambling shoes,
And when the whistle blows I've got to go,
Oh lordy guess I'm never going to loose the freight train blues.

My daddy was a fireman and my mama dear,
She was the only daughter of an engineer,
My sister loved a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.

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A steamboat whistle never stirred my soul,
Aero planes and auto always leave me cold,
The only thing that makes me want to navigate,
Is the wildcat whistle of a south bound freight,

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Now I know I'm old enough to quit my rambling around,
I've tried a hundred times to stop and settle down,
But every time I find a place I want to stay,
A freight train hollers lord, I'm on my way.

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