Waiting For A Train

This song was first released on the all aboard! album. it is the only album it has been released on.



All around the water tower

Waiting for a train

A 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 1 show

Get off, get off you railroad bum

And 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



Words and music by jimmie rodgers


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