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Freight Train

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Freight Train was released on March 30, 2010 by Arista Nashville as a part of the album Freight Train

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[Verse 1]

I just came down from Chippewa

Had a 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

[Chorus]

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

Crashing in your doorway

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

[Verse 2]

Well, every time I talk to you I hear your jealous lies

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

[Chorus]

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

Crashing in your doorway

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

[Instrumental]

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

[Chorus]

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

Crashing in your doorway

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

[Instrumental]

Wish I was a freight train, baby

Wish I was a diesel locomotive

I'd come whistling down your track

Crashing in your doorway

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

Written by: Fred Eaglesmith

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