I'm headed down a highway got a suitcase by my side. Blue skies hangin' over my head I got 500 miles to ride. I'm goin' down to memphis town to play a latenight show.
Seven years of hard luck, comin' down on me. From the Florida border, yeah up to Nashville, Tennessee. I worked in every joint you can name, mister every honky tonk.
Wino on the street. drinkin' a bottle of booze. Ain't got nothing to say, yeah. and he don't got much to lose. Times are on his face. blisters on his brain.