(First releaseâ€â€ÂÂTraditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train was it 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 hear
She was the only daughter of the engineer
My sweetheart 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' shoesby Nanci Griffith, Tom Russell
Don't want to be standing here
With this ticket for this outbound plane
Cause I've been here before
And somehow this doesn't feel the same
Talk is cheap so we could talk all night long
We may never figure out just where your love went wrong
Chorus:
Don't want to be standing here
And I ain't gonna want to be talking here
And I ain't gonna really care who's to blame
If love won't fly out on its own free will
It's going to catch that outbound plane
The old folks say that love's not forever any more
Because these young people walk away from love alone to pace the floor
Young or old guys say that love is still the same
And you may walk away from love but you'll fall head and heels again
Two lonely hearts in this airport knowing
Neither cares where that other heart is going
That frown your wearing's just your halo turned upside down
Where is the laughter we once shared back in the lost and found?
These broken wings are gonna leave me here to stand my ground
And you can have this ticket to that lonely plane that's flying outside