Well I just got in from Chippewa
Got a station wagon and a hundred dollars
I was thinking about a girl I lost a year before
Well I hadn't seen her for some time
And I thought I just might go on by
When your memory came flooding in and it closed the door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track
Crashing through your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You'd need a shovel for the coal
Just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train
Well every time I talk to you
And 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 engine 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 through your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You'd need a shovel for the coal
Just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train
Well every time I fell behind and I could not get ahead
I wish someone would pull the lever and give me a little sand
And every time I slipped behind even further back
I wished 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 through your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You'd need a shovel for the coal
Just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track
Crashing through your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You'd need a shovel for the coal
Just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train