Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Mid-Week at Work: U.S. Troops in Mexico.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Mid-Week at Work: U.S. Troops in Mexico.

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 just to give him a line of talk
He said "If you got money, boy, I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel, not a penny can I show
"Get off, get off, you railroad bum" and slammed the boxcar door

He put me off in Texas, a state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me, the moon and the stars up above
Nobody seems to want me, or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco, going back to Dixieland
My pocket book is empty and my heart is full of pain

I'm a thousand miles away from home just waiting for a train.

Jimmy Rodgers, "Waiting for a Train".

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