词曲原唱： Jimmie Rodgers（1929）
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
To give him my line of talk
He said if you got money
I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel
Not a penny can I show
He said get off you railroad bum
He slammed that boxcar door
He put me off in Texas
The state I dearly love
Wide open spaces around me
Moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco
Going back to Dixieland
My pocketbook is empty
My heart is full of pain
A thousand miles away from home
Just waiting for a train
Oh-de-ley-ee-ei
Oh-de-ley-ee-oh
Lay-ee-lay-ee-hi
It's rainning and it's hailing
While I wait here alone
I'm thinking of the good old days
When just a boy back home
But I ain't turning backwards
I'm going to wander on
I'm going to catch that southern freight
And then boys I'll be gone
He put me off in Texas
That state I dearly love
Wide open spaces around me
Moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me
Or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco
Going back to Dixieland
My pocketbook is empty
My heart is full of pain
I'm a  thousand miles away from home
I waiting for a train