With a suitcase, and a couple of bucks I'm gonna skip this rhubarb, slide down the boulevard I ain't gonna take that dame with me She's full of malarkey Just as soon as it's dark, I'll get a one-way token On the first thing smokin' out of town And I'm goin' out to East St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago Wichita, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Miami, Florida Downtown Tulsa, Champaigne-Urbana Bangor, all aboard, Houston and Atlanta Goin' to Joliet, Bernadette, maybe Philadelphia 'Picket out to Tittsburgh' , any burgh, hamburger Springfield Junction, Primrose Lane I may get me a nose-job and change my name Cause she drinks all my liquor and she steals all the covers
And she swears like a sailor If I ever have to bail her out of jail again, I'm gonna lose my mind Who needs the aggravation Charlie, take me to the station Get a one-way token on the first thing smokin' out of town And go out to East St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago Wichita, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Miami, Florida Downtown Tulsa, Champaigne-Urbana Bangor, all aboard, Houston and Atlanta Goin' to Joliet, Bernadette, maybe Philadelphia 'Picket out to Tittsburgh', any burgh, cheeseburger Springfield Junction, Primrose Lane I may get me a nose-job and change my name