Freight Train Blues chords by Cathy fink, Marcy Marxer

SimplifiedG · C · Em · A · D …

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G
C
Em
A
D
C#dim
Am
C#
Bb
F#
C#m
F
Ab
Abdim
Db
Eb
Fm

Verse 1
G 
C 
G 
Well I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack
It was just a little shanty
by the railroad track
The whinin' of the diesel
was my lullaby
And the freight train whistle
C 
G 
taught me how to cry
Em 
I got the freight train blues
G 
Em 
C 
G 
La -dee, la -dee, la -dee
I got them in the bottom of my ramblin'
A 
Em 
D 
shoes blues.
G 
When the whistle blows I gotta go.
C 
D 
C 
D 
G 
Oh lordy, I guess
A 
I'm never gonna lose
G 
D 
G 
the freight train blues.
Well my daddy was a farmer
Em 
and my mama dear,
G 
she was the only daughter
C#dim 
D 
Am 
G 
of       an engineer.
Em 
G 
My sweetie is a brakeman
and it ain't no joke,
Em 
G 
you should see the way he
C# 
D 
G 
Bb 
makes a good gal broke.
Em 
G 
I've got those freight train
Em 
G 
Em 
G 
D 
blues.
G 
F# 
G 
Lordy, lordy, lordy,
I got them in the bottom of
A 
C 
G 
C 
my ramblin' shoes.
G 
When the whistle blows, I gotta go.
D 
C 
G 
C 
Oh, lordy, I guess I'm never gonna lose
C#dim 
D 
G 
Em 
G 
the freight  train blues.
Em 
G 
Em 
D 
G 
Em 
G 
D 
G 
D 
G 
D 
G 
D 
G 
Airplanes and autos
always leave me cold
The moanin' of a diesel
C#m 
D 
G 
never fills my soul
The only thing that makes
D 
G 
me wanna navigate
C 
Is my sweetheart's whistle
C#m 
D 
G 
and   a southbound freight
F 
G 
Ooh, ooh, I got the freight train
Em 
G 
Em 
G 
A 
blues
G 
A 
G 
Lordy, lordy, lordy
I got him in the bottom of
A 
D 
C 
my ramblin' shoes
G 
When the whistle blows, I gotta go
C#dim 
Oh, Lordy,
C 
F# 
G 
Em 
I guess I'm never gonna lose
D 
G 
the freight train blues.
Well, I know I'm old enough
C 
D 
to quit my runnin' round
And I've tried a hundred times
G 
to stop and settle down
But every time I find a place I'd like to stay
C 
G 
I hear the freight train whistle
C 
D 
G 
and I'm on my way
Ab 
I've got those freight train
G 
Abdim 
G 
Ab 
blues
Got them in the bottom of
Db 
Ab 
Eb 
my ramblin' shoes
Db 
Ab 
When the whistle blows I gotta go
D 
Db 
Ab 
Oh lordy, I guess I'm never
gonna lose
Eb 
Ab 
the freight train blues
When the whistle blows,
Fm 
Ab 
Db 
I gotta go, oh, oh,
Ab 
Db 
Lordy, I guess I'm never gonna lose
Eb 
Ab 
Ab 
the freight train blues.