词曲原唱： Jimmie Rodgers（1929）

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

To give him my line of talk

He said if you got money

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

He slammed that boxcar door

He put me off in Texas

The state I dearly love

Wide open spaces around me

Moon and stars above

Nobody seems to want me

Or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

Going back to Dixieland

My pocketbook is empty

My heart is full of pain

A thousand miles away from home

Just waiting for a train

Oh-de-ley-ee-ei

Oh-de-ley-ee-oh

Lay-ee-lay-ee-hi

It's rainning and it's hailing

While I wait here alone

I'm thinking of the good old days

When just a boy back home

But I ain't turning backwards

I'm going to wander on

I'm going to catch that southern freight

And then boys I'll be gone

He put me off in Texas

That state I dearly love

Wide open spaces around me

Moon and stars above

Nobody seems to want me

Or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from Frisco

Going back to Dixieland

My pocketbook is empty

My heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

I waiting for a train