Waiting For A Train

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Intro: | D G | C | 🎸 Verse 1: C7 All around the water tanks F C Waiting for a train F C A thousand miles away from home D7 G Sleepin' in the rain 🎸 Verse 2: C C7 I walked up to a brakeman F C To give him a line of talk F C He said if you've got money D7 D G I'll see that you don't walk

🎸 Verse 3: C C7 I haven't got a nickel F E E7 Not a penny can I show F C Am Get off, get off, you railroad bum D7 G C And he slammed that boxcar door Break: | C | G7 | C | C | (yodel 3bars) 🎸 Verse 4: C7 He put me off in Texas F C A state I dearly love F C The wide open spaces all around me D7 G7 And the moon and the stars above 🎸 Verse 5: C C7 Nobody seems to want me F C Or lend me a helpin' hand F C I'm on my way from Frisco Bay Dm G7 Headin' back to Dixieland 🎸 Verse 6: C C7 My pocketbook is empty F E E7 And my heart is filled with pain F C Am I'm a thousand miles away from home D7 G C Waiting for a train 🎸 Outro: | C | G | C | (yodel)