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Artist: Jimmie Rodgers
Canonical path: /jimmie-rodgers/waiting-for-a-train
Related lyric paths: 6
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Waiting for a Train
Read Waiting for a Train lyrics by Jimmie Rodgers on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Waiting for a Train
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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 says 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
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 the stars up above
Nobody seems to want me
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from â€~Frisco
I'm going back to Dixieland
Oh, my pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train
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Jimmie Rodgers performs "Waiting for a Train", and this lyric page sits inside the Jimmie Rodgers catalog on LyroVerse.
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