All around the water tank waitin` 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`ve got money I`ll see that you don`t walk
Well I haven`t got a nickel not a penny can I show
He said get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door
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Well he put me off in Texas a place I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
I`m on my way from Frisco headin` back to Dixie Land
My pocketbook is empty my heart is willed with pain
I`m a thousand miles away from home just waitin` for a train