I'm awake in a sleepy old town Streets deserted, there's no one around Don't care where I'm going, Don't know where I've been Don't know how it started or how it will end That's the life of a born ramblin' man I met a girl from the town of no where I couldn't stay, got restless back there I don't blame her for giving, Lord, I needed her then She knew my way of living Wild and free as the wind That's the life of a born ramblin' man If the plans that I made yesterday
Fall apart on some lonesome highway I'll sleep by the roadside 'til it's morning again Wash my face in the water From a creek around the bend That's the life of a born ramblin' man Big semis keep pa**ing me by That old sun's getting hot in the sky A shade tree oh bottles and battered beer cans Dust from a tractor plowing up the rich land Seen it all as a born ramblin' man That's the life of a born ramblin' man