I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track,
The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry.


Freight Train Blues (1936)


I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track, The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train...

I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track, The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train...

I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track, The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train...

I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track, The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train...