I'm gonna catch me a freight train
  Lord I'm leaving this lonesome town
  The one I loved and gave my heart to
  For someone else she turned me down
  
  Engineer reach up and pull the whistle
  Let me hear that lonesome sound
  For it blends with the feeling that's in me
  The one I loved has turned me down
  
  There's sixteen cars behind each engine
  I'll ride the last one till the end of the line
  I don't know where I'll go or where I'll wind up
  Just anything to ease my worried mind