The following is the Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer version, BUT why do they credit "J. Dean & L. Lynne" with it???

The redoubtable Stewie goes with John Lair as being the FTB man (as in the link in Wolfgang's post) ...

FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES

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 that freight train whistle taught me how to cry.

I got the Freight Train Blues - Lordy Lordy Lordy
I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoe-oe-s
When the whistle blows I gotta go-oh
O-Oh Lordy, I guess I'm never gonna lose the Freight Train Blues.

Well my daddy was a farmer and my mama dear
She was the only daughter of an engineer
My sweetie is a brakeman an' it ain't no joke
You should see - the way he makes a good gal broke!

I've got those Freight Train Blues - Lordy Lordy Lordy ...

Airplanes and autos always leaves me cold
The moanin' of a diesel never fills my soul
The only thing that makes me want to navigate
Is my sweetheart's whistle and a south-bound freight : OO- OO!!

I got the Freight Train Blues - Lordy Lordy Lordy ...

Well I know I'm old enough to quit my - runnin' round
An' I've tried a hundred times to stop an' - settle down
But every time I find a place I'd - like to stay
I hear that freight train whistle and I'm on my way-ay

I've got those Freight Train Blu-u-u-es!
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoe-oe-s
When the whistle blows I gotta go-oh
O-Oh Lordy, I guess I'm never gonna lose the Freight Train Blues
When the whistle blows I gotta go-oh
O-Oh Lordy, I guess I'm never gonna lose those Freight Train - Blu-u-u-es!

Cheers! R-J