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

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