Well I just came down from Chippewa
  I had a station wagon and a hundred dollars
  I was thinkin' about the girl I'd lost a year before
  I hadn't seen her for some time
  I thought that I might go on by
  When your memory came floodin' in
  And you closed that door
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    Wish I was a freight train baby
  Wish I was a diesel locomotive
  I'd come whistlin' down your track
  Crashin' in your door
  Wish I was a freight train baby
  Wish I didn't have a heart
  And 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 water just gets cold
  My stoker will not stoke
  And my boiler will not boil
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    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 slip behind
  Even further back
  I wish some switchman 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 whistlin' down your track
  Crashin' in your door
  Wish I was a freight train baby
  Wish I didn't have a heart
  And 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 . . .