[Chorus]
I'm just a passenger on this old freight train
I ride a boxcar through the night
It doesn't matter where I might get off
It doesn't matter where I lie

[Verse 1]
I've been to cities, I've been to countries
I've left a lover in many towns
I don't care if I ever get back to
Where I'd already been around

[Verse 2]
I'm like an eagle, I like to fly high
I'm like a snake, I like to lay low
I'm like a Black man, maybe a white man
Could a red man, I don't know

[Chorus]
I'm just a passenger on this old freight train
I ride a boxcar through the night
It doesn't matter where I might get off
It doesn't matter where I lie