Waiting For A Train Lyrics - Billy Walker

All around the water tank 

Waiting for a train 

A thousand miles away from home 

Standing in the rain 

I walked up to a brakeman 

To hand him a line of talk 

He says if you've got money, Bill 

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 above 

Nobody seems to want me 

Or lend me a helping hand 

I'm on my way from Frisco 

Going back to Dixieland 

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