Waiting for a Train

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

To give him a line of talk

He says if you've got money

I'll see that you don't walk.

I haven't got a nickle

Not a penny can I show

He said get off you railroad bum

And slammed the boxcar door.

Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh la-ee

Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh.

He put me off in Texas

A place I surely love

Wide open spaces 'round me

The moon and stars above.

Nobody seems to want me

Or lend me a helping hand

I'm on my way from 'Frisco

Goin' back to Dixieland.

My pocketbook is empty

And my heart is filled with pain

I'm a thousand miles away from you

Just waiting for a train.

Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh la-ee

Oh la-ee, oh la-ee, oh