Waitin' For a Train - Merle Haggard

All around the water tanks

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 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

Get off, get off, you railroad bum

And he slammed that boxcar door.

He put me off in Texas

The place I dearly love

The wide open spaces all around me

The moon and stars up above.

Nobody seemed to want me

Nor to 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

Waitin' for a train.

Nobody seemed to want me

Nor to 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

Waitin' for a train…