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Folk Singer‐Humdinger: Just About as Good as It Gets!
Disc 1
01. Gospel Plow
02. Hard Times in New York Town (live, WBAI Radio, NY, March 1 1962))
03. Baby Let Me Follow You Down
04. Highway
05. Talking New York
06. Roll on John (live, WBAI Radio, NY, March 1 1962)
07. Hard Travellin’ (live, WBAI Radio, NY, March 1 1962)
08. In My Time of Dyin’
09. You’re No Good
10. Smokestack Lightning (live, WBAI Radio, NY, March 1 1962)
11. Man on the Street (live, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 4 1961)
12. 1913 Massacre (live, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 4 1961)
13. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (live, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 4 1961)
14. Fixin’ to Die
15. Stealin’ Stealin’ (live, WBAI Radio, NY, March 1 1962)
16. Baby Please Don’t Go (live, WBAI radio, NY, March 1 1962)
17. A Hard Rains Gonna Fall (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
18. Song to Woody
19. Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
20. Handsome Molly (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
21. Kind Hearted Woman Blues (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
22. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
23. House of the Risin’ Sun
24. Acne (live, Riverside Church, Hootenanny Special, July 29 1961)
25. Freight Train Blues
Disc 2
01. Mean Old Southern Railroad (live, Riverside Church, Hootenanny Special, July 29 1961)
02. Rocks and Gravel (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
03. Pretty Peggy‐O
04. Talking Merchant Marine (live, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 4 1961)
05. Cocaine (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
06. Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
07. The Cuckoo (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
08. Sally Gal (live, Oscar Brand Show, October 29 1961))
09. Ballad of Hollis Brown (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
10. Omie Wise (live, Riverside Church, Hootenanny Special, July 29 1961)
11. Motherless Children Have a Hard Time (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
12. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow (live)
13. No More Auction Block (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
14. Man of Constant Sorrow
15. The Death of Emmett Till (live)
16. Po’ Lazerus (live, Riverside Church, Hootenanny Special, July 29 1961)
17. Moonshine Blues (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
18. John Brown (live, Gaslight Cafe 1961–62)
19. In the Pines (live, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 4 1961)
20. Song to Woody (live, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 4 1961)
I was born in Dixie in a boomer's shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train was it taught me how to cry
Hummin' of the drivers was my lullaby

I got the freight train blues
Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Baby, don't you know?
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 the engineer
My sweetheart loved the brakeman and that ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke

I got the freight train blues
Oh, lawdy mama got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Oh, mama, don't you know?
Well, it looks like I'm never gonna 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 go because, you know

I got the freight train blues
Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes