FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES
Dorsey / Murphy

as rec by Trixie Smith  1924


I hate to hear that freight train blow "boo-hoo",
I hate to hear that freight train blow "boo-hoo",
Every time I hear it blowin' I feel like ridin' too!

I asked the freight man to let me ride the blind,
I asked the freight man to let me ride the blind,
he said, "Little girlie, you know this tain ain't mine!".

That's the mean old fireman, cruel old engineer,
That's the mean old fireman, cruel old engineer,
It was a mean old train that took my man away from here!

I've got the freight train blues, but I'm too darned mean to cry,
I've got the freight train blues, I'm too darned mean to cry,
I'm gonna love that man till the day he die!

There's three trains ready, but none ain't goin' my way,
I say there's three trains ready, but none ain't goin' my way,
But the sun's gonna shine in my back door some day!











(Contributed by Peter Akers - August 2010)