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All around the water tank waiting for a train 
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A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain 
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I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk 
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He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk 
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Well I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show 
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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 
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The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above 
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Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand 
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I'm on my way from Frisco heading back to Dixie Land 
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My pocketbook is empty my heart is willed with pain 
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I'm a thousand miles away from home just waiting for a train