Alan Jackson

Released: March 30, 2010

Songwriter: Fred Eaglesmith

Producer: Keith Stegall

[Verse 1]
I just came down from Chippewa
Had a station wagon and a hundred dollars
Thinking about the girl I'd lost a year before
I hadn't seen her for some time
Thought I might go on by
When your memory came flooding in and you closed that door

[Chorus]
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

[Verse 2]
Well every time I talk to you I hear your jealous lines
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

[Chorus]
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

[Verse 3]
Well every time I fell behind 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 switch man would come out of the fog and change my track

[Chorus][x2]
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing in your door
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
You need a shovel for the coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

Alan Eugene Jackson was born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia to Joseph Eugene “Daddy Gene” and Ruth Musick “Mama Ruth” Jackson. He has four older sisters, Diane; twins Cathy & Carol and Connie. He attended Elm Street Elementary School and Newnan High School in Newnan, GA and also attended one year at West Georgia College. Alan married Denise on December 15, 1979. They have three daughters. Mattie Denise was born June 19, 1990; Alexandra Jane “Ali” was born August 23, 1993 and Dani Grace was born August 28, 1997. The 6'4" country music singer-songwriter is known for blending honky-tonk and mainstream country sounds. He also writes many of his own songs. To date, he’s released over 15 albums.

Jackson has sold over 80 million records, and more than 50 of his singles having appeared on Billboard’s “Top 40 Country Songs”. He’s won two Grammys and 16 CMA Awards.

He is known for “I’d Love You All Over Again”, “Country Boy”, “I Don’t Even Know Your Name”, and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”.

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