George Stephen Kelly - Waiting For A Train (Jimmie Rodgers Cover)

From the Texas Hill Country.

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Waiting For A Train
© Jimmie Rodgers 1929
Songwriter: Jimmie Rodgers
© Peermusic Publishing

All around the water tank waiting for a train
A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman gave him a line of talk
He said if you've got money boy 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 the boxcar door

He put me off in Texas a state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars up above
Nobody seems to want me or to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco 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 just a waiting for a train