I'm headed southbound Long way to go down Where the weather Don't suit my clothes Police can't catch me Lord, how they tried They always miss me when I am passing by I'm passing by I threw all my things In a vacant lot Down one last dollar boys And that is all I got Well I found all my friends Just so I could say goodbye I couldn't hold it down, girl God, how I tried Some got religion And they just can't win Well I take to hard drinking And I push my feelings in I'm leaving town And all people that I know Well I'm drunk as hell tonight And that freight train, my home I'm headed southbound Long way to go down Where the weather Don't suit my clothes Police can't catch me Lord, how they tried They always miss me when I'm passing by I'm passing by Rains pouring hard Makes those steel rails shine Nine hundred more miles And I'll be doing just fine And if the moon and the stars Are the only shelter that I know I guess I got this whole world And you to call my home You to call my home You to call my home You to call my home