Waiting For A Train

(Jimmie Rodgers)



All around the water tanks

Waiting for a train

A thousand miles away from home

Sleeping in the rain.



I walked up to a brakeman

To give him a line of talk

He said if you've got money

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 that boxcar door.



He put me off in Texas

The place I dearly love

The wide open spaces all around me

The moon and stars up above.



Nobody seemed to want me

Nor to lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

I'm going back to Dixie Land.



Though my pocketbook is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

Waitin' for a train.



--- Instrumental ---



Nobody seemed to want me

Nor to lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

I'm going back to Dixie Land.



Though my pocketbook is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

Waitin' for a train...