WRITER JIMMIE RODGERS

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

Just to give him a line of talk

He says if you've got money boy

I'll see that you don't walk

Well I have'nt got a nickle

Not a penny can I show

Get off, get off you railroad bum

And 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 the stars up above

Nobody seems to want me

Or to lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from 'Frisco

Goin' back to Dixieland

Oh my pocketbook is empty

And my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home

Waitin' for a train