49 Tons

If there were seventeen cars out in my back yard

The boys in blue were callin' my name

Semi-automatics up on the rooftop

They just wanted to talk to me

I'd tell 'em what they wanted to hear

The only thing that I knew

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive

Couldn't drag me back to you

Everywhere you go there's a train wreck baby

Everywhere you go there's a runaway train

Play my heart like a bottleneck baby

Sliding up and down and and pulling my strings

Everywhere you go everybody knows

You're looking for someone to do

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive

Couldn't drag me back to you

If I was a brakeman I was a switch man

If I was an engineer

I'd take that train on down that line

And clear on out of here

If I was the man swinging the lantern

I'd swing it 'til I was blue

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive

Couldn't drag me back to you

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive

Couldn't drag me back to you