Thought I'd take a trip out west See the Mississippi Go down to Tennessee or the Big Easy Drove out from the east coast With my home town boy Put in on the southern shores of Illinois Don't take it so hard, babe Life and you Don't take it so hard, babe
It'll see you through Hid out in a corn field With Pica**o colors Humming birds and mosquitos By the brown waters Walked through the darkest cave Hoping for Mark Twain Didn't find that river man but it Sure did rain