FAST FREIGHT
(Terry Gilkyson)

As I listen for the whistle, lie awake, and wait,
Wish the railroad didn't run so near,
For the rattle and the clatter of that old fast freight
Keeps a-makin' music in my ear.

cho: Go bum again. Go bum again.
Hear the whistle blow. Hear the whistle blow.
Clickity clack, clickity clack.
The wheels are singing to the railroad track:
"If you go, you can't come back.
If you go, you can't come back.
If you go, you can't come back."

I wouldn't give a nickel for the bum I use to be,
Work as hard as any man in town.
I've got a pretty girl. She thinks the world of me.
A man would be a fool to let her down. CHO.

Every night I listen, wonder if it's late.
In my dreams, I'm ridin' on that train.
I feel my pulse a-beatin' with that old fast freight,
And thank the Lord I'm just a bum again. CHO.

Recorded by the Easy Riders, the Calypsonians,
and most famously by the Kingston Trio, on "The Kingston Trio," 1958.
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