Ho down down Ho down dee Red bird dancin' In custody Goin' down New Orleans Red bird dancin' An a red bird sing Red bird sing Red bird do New Orleans
Chorus: Missouri born Red leg boy He just born Yeah to playin the ball Ain't much good For much else at all He just born Yeah to playin the ball Run
Out on the banks Of the Rio Ticino Standing in front of The 3 Kings Hotel Looking out At the town of Castelletto Wondering about What Happened Over There
Yeah, the truck drivin? man He gonna understand When he pulls into the night cafe He gonna walk right in Where there's too many men Wantin? hamburgers
Ah, standin' in the kitchen, lookin' out the window Wonderin' when she'll come home You know she's out drinking, you been thinkin' She gets back, you'
From the wrong side of nothin To the right side of gone He left em all reelin With his white bucks on And headed out west Cross road to the bone With
Standing in the spotlight Listening to the crowd Screaming for his insides Wantin him to let it out But can they handle what they want? Can they handle
Yeah, roll truck roll Yeah, roll truck roll Better get on down the highway You better get on down the road Yeah, I work for a trucking company And my
I been wrong for so long, accusing you of wrongness But tonight you broke and you made me right 'Cause I just saw you inside this Texas tavern By his
Yeah, I know you don't understand this But I think you have a death wish Even though I know you do not want to die Yeah, you just want to fall in love
Chorus: Ourland is my land Her history is calling me From the shoes of another land To ourland across the sea Well I fancy a bomb inside my head Ticking
Yeah, he never done too good when he's in high school Ah, he never even talked to a popular girl Yeah, he just hung around, down at the drive-in Honkin
Sa la vey Sa la guerre When that soft suburban moonlight Plays a mansionette melody Calling all blue collars And their sweet boufantee's To go slipping
Well, I drove down to the drive-in and then I drove in I asked that carhop for a coke and said, ?Let's go for a little spin? She said, ?I'm losin' you
Tell me whatever happened to Jesus Ah, where did that good old boy go? Did you leave him behind back in Texas Or did he just hide in the devil's disguise
Chorus: Well I??¦ goin back Goin home again Yeah I'm goin back To my own again Yeah I'm goin back Ahhh to my home town The one that put me out The one
I remember standing All scrubbed down and clean Tapping my foot By the record machine An I was watching you dancing watchin you prancin watchin you glancin
Well He took his first release On a highway In a 1953 green Chevrolet An he was carryin and awful load For just a 15 year old 'Til he laid his mind On