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.