Waiting for a Train

Key of D · Chords: I II IV V VI

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Verse 1

D
All around the water tank
  G             D
A-waitin' for a train
  G             D         B7
A thousand mile away from home
     E               A7
Just standin' in the rain
  D                     D7
I walked up to the brakeman
             G              D
Just to give him my line of talk
   G                  D      B7
He said if you've got money, Bo
     E        A7        A7
I'll see that you don't walk

Verse 2

       D             D7
Well I haven't got a nickel
      G           D
Not a penny can I show
      G                     D        B7
Well, get off, get off, you railroad bum
       E                  A7
And he slammed the boxcar door
   D                D7
He kicked me off in Texas
    G              D
The state I dearly love
         G                    D      B7
With the wide open spaces all around me
        E              A7 D
And the moon and stars above
D                   D7
But no one seems to want me
      G                 D
Or to give me a helping hand
    G            D  B7
I'm on my way to Dixie
      E                     A7
Goin' back to that promised land
   D             D7
My pocketbook is empty
   G                    D
My heart is filled with pain
      G              D         B7
I'm a thousand miles away from home
       E       A7    D
Just a-waitin' for a train

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