Waiting For A Train lyrics

Song information

Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Unearthed

Lyrics

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
He said get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door
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Well he put me off in texas a place I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from frisco headin' back to dixie land
My pocketbook is empty my heart is willed with pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home just waitin' for a train