All around the water tank

Waiting 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 got money boy

I'll see that you don't walk

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

I'd put me off in Texas

A place I dearly love

Wide open spaces around me

I told moon and the stars up above

Nobody seems to want me

Or give me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

I'm going back to Dixieland

My pocket book is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away

From home waiting for a train