All around the water tank waitin' for a train

A thousand miles away from home sleepin' in the rain

I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk

He said if you've got money 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 he slammed the boxcar door

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Well he put me off in Texas a state I dearly love

The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars up above

Nobody seems to want me or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco goin' back to Dixie Land

My pocketbook is empty my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home waitin' for a train