WAITING FOR A TRAIN
JOHNNY CASH

VERSE ONE:
F    C7        F     F7
All around the water tank
Bb      Bbm   F
Waiting for a train
  Bb              F        Em
A thousand miles away from from
G7              C7
Sleeping in the rain
  F         C7   F         F7
I pulled up to a freightman
        Bb         Bbm     F
Just to give him a line of talk
   Bb              F
He said if you got money
     G7       C7        F
I'll see that you don't walk
     F        C7    F     F7
Well I havent got a nickel
      Bb          A7
Not a penny can I show
   Bb               F
He said get off you railroad bum
       G7           C7     F
And he slammed that boxcar door

VERSE TWO:
Well he put me off in Texas
In a state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me
Ther moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me
Or to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco
Headin back to Dixieland
My pocket book is empty
And my heart is full of pain
Im a thousand miles away from home
Waitin for a train



I'm not sure which key Johnny sings it in. He had recorded this song on the 
album Blood, Sweat, and Tears: and on the first volume of Unearthed(Who's Gonna 
Cry). I think the unearthed version is in E. But I put the chords in F because, 
that's the way Jimmie Rodgers sings it. But for easy chording, the key of G is 
good.