Cant you hear the whistle blow
Hear it rumble as it goes
Shaking rails up the coast
Burning coal after coal
Cant you feel it in your roots
Breeze it cutting like a tooth
Cutting like a tooth
Daddy was a brakeman
He used to ride that train
Over hills and yonder
Daddy was a brakeman
Aint paid to mind to the rain
Or the thunder
He just smiled and said
Listen to them angels bowl
Yeah he just smiled said boy
Let that freight train roll
Cant you hear the devil howl
Hear him scratchin in the ground
Dont you ever let him out
Wont you ever let him out
Cant you feel it in your roots
Breeze is cutting like a tooth
Cutting like a tooth