waiting for a train

Don Williams

WRITER JIMMIE RODGERS

All around the water tank
Waitinââ?¬â?¢ for a train
A thousand miles away from home
Sleepinââ?¬â?¢ in the rain

I walked up to a brakeman
Just to give him a line of talk
He says if youââ?¬â?¢ve got money boy
Iââ?¬â?¢ll see that you donââ?¬â?¢t walk

Well I haveââ?¬â?¢nt got a nickle
Not a penny can I show
Get off, get off you railroad bum
And he slammed the boxcar door

Well 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 to lend me a helping hand
Iââ?¬â?¢m on my way from ââ?¬Ë?Frisco
Goinââ?¬â?¢ back to Dixieland

Oh my pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full of pain
Iââ?¬â?¢m a thousand miles away from home
Waitinââ?¬â?¢ for a train