All around the water tank waiting for a train   A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain   I walked up to a brakeman gave him a line of talk   He said if you've got money boy 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 the boxcar door      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 to lend me a helping hand   I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land   Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain   I'm a thousand miles away from home just a waiting for a train