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