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, to give him a line of talk,
He said, "If you 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.
Wide open spaces 'round me, and the moon and the stars above.
Well no one seems to want me, or lend me a helping hand.
I’m on my way from Frisco, I’m going back to Dixie land.
My pocketbook is empty, and my heart is full of pain.
I’m a thousand miles away from home, just waiting for a train