Bob Dylan - freight train blues

이 노래는 화자가 기차 소리 속에서 자라난 경험과 그로 인한 감정적 고통을 이야기한다
그는 기차와 관련된 가족과 연인들로 인해 느끼는 슬픔을 노래하며, 어디로도 갈 수 없는 불안한 삶을 담아낸다
결국, 그는 이 고통이 계속될 것임을 암시한다

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train whistle taught me how to cry
The holler of the driver was my lullaby
I got the freight train blues
Oh Lordy mama, got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
And when the whistle blows I got to go baby, don't you know
Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues
Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama-her
She was the only daughter of an engineer
My sweetheart was a brakeman and it ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke
I got the freight train blues
Oh Lordy mama, got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
And when the whistle blows I got to go woah mama, don't you know
Well, it looks like I'm never going to 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 want to go I never can't go
Because you know