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