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 boy
Ill see that you dont walk

I havent got a nickel

Not a penny can I show

Get off 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

The moon and the stars up above

Nobody seems to want me

Or 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

Just waiting for a train