Waiting for a Train

(Jimmie Rodgers)



All around the water tank

Waiting for a train

A thousand miles away from home

Sleeping in the rain.



I walked up to a brakeman

Gave him a line of talk

He said if you've got money boy

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 up above.



Nobody seems to want me

Or to lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

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

Just a waiting for a train...