Well a great black river a man had found
So he put all his money in a hole in the ground
And sent a big steel arm drivin´ down down down
Man now I live on the streets of Houston town

Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along
And we headed down south with just spit and a song
But they said "Sorry son it´s gone gone gone"

Well there´s men hunkered down by the railroad tracks
The Elkhorn Special blowin´ my hair back
Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight
And I don´t know where I´m gonna sleep tonight

Parked in the lumberyard freezin´ our asses off
My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough
Well I´m sleepin´ up in front with my wife
Billy club tappin´ on the windshield in the middle of the night
Says "Move along man move along"

Well big limousine long shiny and black
You don´t look ahead you don´t look back
How many times can you get up after you´ve been hit?
Well I swear if I could spare the spit
I´d lay one on your shiny chrome
And send you on your way back home
So if you´re gonna leave your town where the north wind blow
To go on down where that sweet soda river flow
Well you better think twice on it Jack
You´re better off buyin´ a shotgun dead off the rack
You ain´t gonna find nothin´ down here friend
Except seeds blowin´ up the highway in the south wind
Movin´ on movin´ on it´s gone gone it´s all gone