C G7 C C7 F Cm All around the water tank waiting for a train F C Am D7 G7 A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain C G7 C C7 F Fm C I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk F C D7 G7 He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk C G7 C C7 F Fm C Well I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show F C D7 G7 C He said get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door yodel C F C G7 C G7 C G7 C C7 F Fm C Well he put me off in Texas a place I dearly love F C D7 G7 The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above C G7 C C7 F Fm C Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand F C D7 G7 I'm on my way from Frisco heading back to Dixie Land C G7 C C7 F Fm C My pocketbook is empty my heart is willed with pain F C D7 G7 C I'm a thousand miles away from home just waiting for a train yodel C F C G7 C