"Waiting for a Train" by Jimmie Rodgers

Lyrics were taken from a Boz Scaggs cover from the album
"Boz Scaggs" on Atlantic SD 19166.

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[Intro]
               

           
All around the

           
 water tank, w

        
aiting for a t

    
rain

         
A thousand mil

           
es away from h

#          
ome, sleeping 

       
in the rain

I walked up to the brakeman, to give him a line of talk

He said if you've got the money son, I'll see that you don't walk

But I haven't got a nickel, not a penny can I show...

        
Get off get of

             
f you railroad

         
 bum, he slamm

            
ed the boxcar 

   
door.

He put me off in Texas, a state I dearly love

Wide open spaces all around me, and 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 waitin' for a train

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