When I get off of this mountain, you know where I wanna go.
Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she says to me
'Virgil, quick, come see! There goes Robert E. Lee'

I picked up my bag. I went looking for a place to hide.
When I saw Carmen and the devil walking side by side.

Out of nine lives, I've spent seven.
Now how in the world do you get to heaven?

And the sun don't shine anymore
And the rains fall down on my door.

Was it something that somebody said? Mama I know we broke the rules.
Was somebody up against the law. Honey, you know I'd die for you.

[title], gypsy tailwind. They call my home the land of snow.
Canadian cold front movin' in. What a way to run, oh, what a way to go.

Now when he says that he's afraid, take him at his word
And for the price that the poor boy's paid, he get to sing just like a bird.

[title] Where do you go?
[title] Bring your skinny little body back home.

And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down in my knees
But just before she leaves, she receives

Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap, here on the street.
I got six on each arm and two upon my feet.

They say ev'ry man needs protection They say that ev'ry man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection Somewhere so high above this wall