Waiting For A Train

All around the water tank

Waiting for a train

A thousand miles away from home

Standing in the rain

I walked up to a brakeman

To hand him a line of talk

He says if you've got money, Bill

I'll see that you don't walk

I haven't got a nickel

Not a penny can I show

Get off, get off you railroad bum

And he slammed the boxcar door

He put me off in Texas

A state I dearly love

The wide open spaces all around me

The moon and stars above

Nobody seems to want me

Or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

Going back to Dixieland

My pocketbook is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

Just a waiting for a train