G
I ran away for the first time, when I was just about four years old


[Chorus]
              C                     G
I'm a freeborn man, my home is on my back
      D                       C                                               G
I know every inch of highway, every foot of backroad, every mile of railroad track


[Verse 2]
       G
I got a gal Cincinnati, a woman in San Antone
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I always love that gal next door, but any ol' place is home


[Chorus]
              C                     G
I'm a freeborn man, my home is on my back
      D                       C                                               G
I know every inch of highway, every foot of backroad, every mile of railroad track


[Verse 3]
 G
I got me a worn-out guitar, I carry in an old tote sack
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I hocked it about two hundred times but I always get it back


[Chorus]
              C                     G
I'm a freeborn man, my home is on my back
      D                       C                                               G
I know every inch of highway, every foot of backroad, every mile of railroad track


[Verse 4]
   G
You may not like my appearance, you may not like my song
   G
You may not like the way I am, but you'll sure like the way I'm gone


[Chorus]
              C                     G
I'm a freeborn man, my home is on my back
      D                       C                                               G
I know every inch of highway, every foot of backroad, every mile of railroad track


[Verse 1]
G
I was born in the Southland twenty-some odd years ago
G
I ran away for the first time, when I was only four years old


[Chorus]
              C                     G
I'm a freeborn man, my home is on my back
      D                       C                                               G
I know every inch of highway, every foot of backroad, every mile of railroad track