a 1922 popular song
words by Mort Bosley and Henry Santrey
music by Elmer Barr
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- I’ve been a roamer all my life
And only one thing worries me
It’s when I think of traveling
It ends all my poor misery
I have no home sweet home
And when I’m all alone
A feeling comes a-stealing
And it makes me want to roam and roam
Chorus
Choo Choo blues
They’re with me night and day
And they won’t go away
Those blues, I cannot lose
I’ve tried most every town
But I just can’t settle down
In my dreams, it always seems
I’m roaming all around
Choo Choo blues, how hard I tried to find
Something to ease my mind, but it’s all in vain
Cause when I hear that Choo Choo train
I nearly go insane
Every mile, means a smile
When you get those Choo Choo Blues
- I’ve tried to be contented
But it seems I cannot get that way
Those mean old Choo Choo Blues
Are with me and I think they’ve come to stay
No matter how I try
They make me moan and sigh
‘Cause on a Choo Choo train
I’ve made my mind up there I’m goin’ to die
Sung here by Fred Feild: