All around the water tower   Waiting for a train   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   Get off, get off you, railroad bum   He slammed that 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   Nor to 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   Just waiting for a train