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Thread #133191   Message #35511
Posted By: Ralph Butts
21-Aug-98 - 07:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers)
Subject: Lyr Add: WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Jimmie Rodgers)
WAITING FOR A TRAIN
(J. Rodgers)
As recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1928. (Victor V-40014-B)

All around the water tank
Waiting 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 nickel
Not a penny can I show
Get off, get off, you railroad bum
He slammed the boxcar do'.

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
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from 'Frisco
I'm going back to Dixie land.

Though my pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train.