Freight Train

Well, I just came down the Chippewa

Had a station wagon and a hundred dollars

I was thinking 'bout the girl I'd lost a year before

I hadn't seen her for some time

Thought that I might go on by

When your memory came flooding in and you closed that door

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

And crashing in your door

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I didn't have a heart

And you'd need a shovel full of coal

Just to get me started

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a freight train

Every time I talk to you

And I hear your jealous lies

I feel like I've been left abandoned

On some old railway siding

And every time I hear your voice

My water just keeps cold

My stoker will not stoke

And my boiler will not boil

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

And crashing in your door

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I didn't have a heart

And you'd need a shovel full of coal

Just to get me started

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a freight train

Every time I fell behind and I could not get ahead

I wish someone would pull a lever

And give me a little sand

And every time I slip behind, hey, even further back

I wish some switch man would come out of the fog and change my track

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

And crashing in your door

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I didn't have a heart

And you'd need a shovel full of coal

Just to get me started

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a freight train