Bob Dylan - Freight Train Blues guitar tab

Freight Train Blues

(trad.)

Played by Bob Dylan on Bob Dylan (1962)

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

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Intro:

|:C . . . |. . G C :|

|C . . . |. . . . D |G . . . |

|C . . . |F . . . |C . . G |C

C

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack

G C

Just a little shanty by the railroad track

C

Freight train was it taught me how to cry

G C

hummin' of the driver was my lullaby

I got the freight train blues

D G

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes

C F

And when the whistle blows I gotta go baby, don't you know

C G C

Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues.

Well, my daddy was a fireman and my old ma here,

She was the only daugther of an engineer

My sweetheart loved a brakeman and it ain't no joke

It's a shamethe way she keeps a good man broke

I got the freight train blues

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes

And when the whistle blows I gotta go oh mama, don't you know

Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues.

Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again

Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train

Every place I wanna go

I never can go, because you know

I got the freight train blues

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes.

[finish off with harp]

Updated okt 14 2001