Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia California on my mind Straddled that Greyhound And rode it into Raleigh And on across Caroline We stopped in Charlotte But we bypassed Rockhill We never was a minute...
Daddy's baby, what's got you thinking, What's got you sinking so low? Is there something I should know, Something new to you? Daddy's baby, fussing and fretting, Keeping on getting it wrong. She can...
Moving in silent desperation Keeping an eye on the Holy Land A hypothetical destination Say, who is this walking man? Well, the leaves have come to turning And the goose has gone to fly And bridges...

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When I've got something to say Well, don't I always let you know So that you and I can go my way together And if I get carried away Well, I could be sailing on a song And maybe we could carry on...
Mama knows and papa knows That rock 'n roll is music now Baby's been cutting his teeth on Bo Diddley's, I'm a man, man Listen to the wolf-man howl See the white man sailing his ship up on the sea...
Distant hands in foreign lands Are turning hidden wheels Causing things to come about Which no one seems to feel All invisible from where we stand The connections come to pass And though too strange...
Me and my guitar Always in the same mood I am mostly flesh and bones And he is mostly wood Never does grow impatient For the changes I don't know If he can't go to heaven Maybe, I don't want to go, no...
There ain't no melody And I can't find a harmony If there were a way to say it You know I would have played it Well, I'm a man of few words Trying to find a rhyme And finally it occurred to me That...
Paris' rooftops were lovely to see Switzerland's vertical landscape Crossed my mind's eye just now Canada's shoreline has been calling out to me But it's been too long a time Since last I crossed That...
Sing a song for the Wrong And the Wicked and the Strong And the Sick, as thick as thieves For the faceless fear that was never so near Too clear to misbelieve Well the sea is jumping salty And the...