Well I used to be a ramblin' gal Oh but I got tired and I settled down a long long ways, my feet did trod till the life got heavy and the times got hard I've been out east and I've been out west but the southern states, are ones I love the best Alabam, Mississipp, Louisianne Oh the Carolines, Tennessee, and Georgia's kind Well in California, I nearly lost my head but when I reached that Ole Cheyanne I was feeling clear, wanted to live again well I shed a tear in nearly every state just wandering down that lost highway and now the open road starts to callin' me but there ain't no place that I wanna be Yes I used to be a ramblin' gal