All around the water tank   Waitin' for a train   A thousand miles away from home   Sleepin' in the rain      I walked up to a brakeman   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   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 stars up above      Nobody seems to want me   Or lend me a helping hand   I'm on my way from Frisco   Goin' back to Dixie Land      My pocketbook is empty   My heart is full of pain   I'm a thousand miles away from home   Waitin' for a train