There were seventeen cars out in my back yard,

The boys in blue are calling my name,

Semi-automatic up on the rooftop,

They just to want to talk to me,

I told them 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 look, there's a train wreck, baby,

Everywhere you look, there's a runaway train,

Play my heart like a bottleneck, baby,

Running up and down and pulling its 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 switchman, if I was a brakeman,

If I was an engineer,

I'd point that train on down the track

And clear on out of here.

If I was the man swinging the lantern,

I'd swing it 'til it 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.

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.

Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive

Couldn't drag me back to you.