Bess was the one that gave Woody and me a ride in her car To go to Woody's place the last time I saw him And he went up to sleep in his tent Woody and I collected some money Singing it was in the square Eleven dollars and forty four cents We changed it into a paper money at the St. Reno bar We collected that money in a paper beer cup When we got to California there was only about fifteen or sixteen cents left We made it last all the way cross the United States Four days across the country, eleven dollars I guess that's the average expenditure of three dollars a day To drive across the country in a Buick