All around the water tanks   Waiting for a train   A thousand miles away from home   Sleeping in the rain      I walked up to a brake-man   To give him a line of talk   He said, "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   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