"Waiting For A Train" lyrics
(originally by Jimmie Rodgers)
All around the water tanks
I'm just waiting for a train
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Sleeping in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman
Just to give him a line of talk
Hell, he says, "If you've got money
I'll see that you don't walk."
Lord, 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 above
And no one seems to want me
Nobody lend me a helping hand
And I'm on my way from Frisco
Heading back to Dixieland
My pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full with pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train
I'm just waiting for a train
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Sleeping in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman
Just to give him a line of talk
Hell, he says, "If you've got money
I'll see that you don't walk."
Lord, 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 above
And no one seems to want me
Nobody lend me a helping hand
And I'm on my way from Frisco
Heading back to Dixieland
My pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full with pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train
