Key: C
Introduction: C C D G F C G
C
I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
D G
Oh, lawdy mama got em on the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
C
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
F
Baby don't you know
C G
It looks like I'm never gonna lose
C D G C F G)
The freight train blues.
Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama hear