WAITING FOR A TRAIN words and music by Jimmie Rodgers 1929
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All Around the Water Tank
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Waiting For a Train
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A thousand Miles Away From Home
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Sleeping in the Rain
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I walked Up to a brakeman
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To Give Him A Line of Talk
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He says "If you've got Money
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I'll see that you don't walk"
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I haven't got a nickel
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Not a penny can I show
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He said Get off you Railroad Bum
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And he slammed the box car door
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He put me off in Texas
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A place I surely love
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Wide open spaces 'round me
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The Moon and Stars above
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Nobody seems to want me
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or Lend me a helping Hand
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I'm On my Way from Frisco
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Goin back to Dixieland
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My pocket book is empty
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And my heart is filled with pain
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I'm a thousand Miles away from home
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Just Waiting for a train
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