Chords for Freight Train Blues (Roy Acuff)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack, just [G] a little shanty by the [C] railroad track.
The humming of the drivers was my lullaby, and a freight train whistle taught me how to cry.
_ I got the freight train blues, _ _ lordy, lordy, lordy, got them in the [D] bottom of my ramblin' shoes. _
[G] _ [C] And when the whistle blows, I gotta [F] go, oh [C] lordy, guess I'm never [G] gonna lose the freight train [C] blues.
_ My daddy was a farmer and my mama dear, she [G] was the only daughter of an [C] engineer.
Sweetie loved to brake, but now it ain't no joke, but it's a shame the way she kept a good man broke.
_ I got the freight train blues, [Em] _ [C] _
lordy, lordy, lordy, got them in the [D] bottom of my ramblin' shoes. _
[G] _ [C] And when the whistle blows, I gotta [F] go, oh [C] lordy, guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues. _ _ _
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I know I'm old enough to quit my runnin' around, I've tried a hundred times to stop and settle down.
Every time I find a place I want to stay, I hear a freight train [G] whistle, lord, I'm on my [C] way.
I got the freight train blues, _ _ lordy, lordy, lordy, got them in the [D] bottom of my ramblin' _ _
[G] _ [C] shoes.
And when the whistle blows, I gotta [F] go, [C] oh lordy, guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ [C] _ I got the freight train blues, _ lordy, lordy, lordy, got them in the bottom [D] of my ramblin' shoes.
_ _ [G] _ [C]
And when the whistle blows, I gotta _ [F] _ [C] go, oh lordy, guess I'm [Em] never gonna [C] lose the freight train blues.
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