Freight Train

Album: Freight Train (2010)
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  • I just came down from Chippewa
    Had as station wagon and a hundred dollars
    Thinking about the girl I'd lost a year before
    I hadn't seen her for some time
    Thought 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, crashing in your door
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I didn't have a heart
    You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train

    Well, every time I talk to you I hear your jealous lines
    I feel like I've been left abandoned on some old railway side
    And every time I hear your voice my water just gets 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, crashing in your door
    Wish I was a freight train baby
    Wish I didn't have a heart
    You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train

    Well every time I fell behind, I could not get ahead
    I wish someone would pull the lever and give me a little sand
    And every time I slip behind 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, crashing in your door
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I didn't have a heart
    You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train
    Whoo!

    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a diesel locomotive
    I'd come whistling down your track, crashing in your door
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I didn't have a heart
    You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train, baby
    Wish I was a freight train Writer/s: Fred Eaglesmith
    Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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