Greensboro woman don't you smile on me. I do not feel like being comforted. And anyway I'll be home soon. For once is someone waitin' there. And if you don't mind, I just think on her instead.
I been gone too long. Too long gone, too long. I been travelin' hard. I just can't get back home. Oh, it's hard to believe. I done all that much wrong.
Goin' down to Memphis and maybe get my ashes hauled. I can drive me a car man but I don't need no car at all. I believe I'll ride that Memphis cannon ball.