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 just to give him a
Line of talk
He said if you got money
I'll see that
You don't walk
I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I
Show
Set get off you railroad bum
And slammed the boxcar door
He put me off in texas
A state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me
And the moon 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 dixieland
My pocket book is empty and my heart is full
Of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home waiting for
A train
