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

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.

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,
    I'm like a white man
Maybe a red man, I don't know.

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