WAITIN' FOR A TRAIN

All around the water tank, waitin' for a train
I'm a thousand miles away from home, just standin' in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman to give him a line of talk
And he said, "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."
So he said, "Get off, you railroad bum!" and he slammed that boxcar door.

He put me off in Texas, a state I dearly love
The wide open spaces around me, the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me, or lend me a helping hand
I was on my way from 'Frisco, headed back to Dixie land
My pocketbook is empty; my heart is filled with pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home, just a-waitin' for a train
[Yodeling...] the late great Jimmie Rodgers

I just looked in the DigiTrad ... don't appear to be there. I LOVE this song. Without the yodeling, I'll do it when I'm busking and some 70/80-year-olds remember it!

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 28-Mar-03.