All around the water tanks

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 says, "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!"

And he slammed that boxcar door

He put me off in Texas

The place I dearly love

The wide open spaces all around me

The moon and stars up above

Nobody seemed to want me

Or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

I'm going back to Dixieland

Though my pocketbook is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

Waiting for a train

Nobody seemed to want me

Or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

I'm going back to Dixieland

Though my pocketbook is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

Waiting for a train

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