All around the water tank,
waitin' 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 I show.
Get off, you railroad bum.
And he slammed the boxcar door.
Well he put me off in Texas,
It was a state I dearly love.
The wide open spaces all around me,
the moon and stars above;
My pocketbook is empty,
my heart is filled with pain.
I'm a thousand miles away from home,
just waitin' for a train.

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