Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is taking me Sometimes I can't even see the reason why I guess I keep on gamblin' lots of booze and lots of ramblin' It's easier than just waitin' around to die One time, friends, I had a ma, I even had a pa He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried She told him to take care of me, she headed down to Tennessee It's easier than just waitin' around to die I came of age and I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit it on the sly I tried to k** the pain, bought some wine and hopped a train It's easier than just waitin' around to die A friend said he knew where some easy money was We robbed a man, and brother did we fly The posse caught up with me and drug me back to Muskogee It's two long years just waitin' around to die