i ve got the lonesome homesick blues i ve got them bad babe down in my shoes i left someone there that i might lose that s why i ve got these old homesick blues it makes me homesick to hear your name and hold you dear in my arms again i m a gonna ride that old lonesome train to the one i left back in maces spring you told me once dear you loved me so and it s on my mind dear every where i go i ll soon be knowing if it is so or has your love for me grown cold oh listen to that old lonesome train it s a gonna carry me back again to the one that told me their love was true i ll spend the rest of my days with you i ve been away babe a long long time now i m riding down this old railroad line and the one i love there i hope to find to ease this lonesome blue heart of mine