Waiting For A Train - John Denver

All around the water tower

Waiting 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 youve got money

Ill see that you dont walk

Well I havent got a nickel

Not a penny can 1 show

Get off, get off you railroad bum

And he slammed that boxcar door

Well, 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 Nor to lend me a helping hand

Im on my way from frisco

Going back to dixieland

My pocketbook is empty

My heart is full of pain

Im a thousand miles away from home

Just waiting for a train

Words and music by jimmie rodgers