Buddy

Buddy

Won't you let me take you with me?

I'm gonna give away all my memories

I'm packin' 'em up tonight

No need to leave 'em at home

When I can put 'em in a song

And we can play 'em all night long

For drinkers in another town

And early in the mornin', when we're back out on that highway

Pushin' back miles, listenin' to the gear shake

Wheel life

We'll be lonesome, we'll be tried

Haw

It'll be hard livin'

A little scary when it ain't fun

Like bandits on the run from nothin'

In a Ford Econoline

Keep on honky tonkin'

We're gonna push 'em around the floors

Until they can't walk out them doors

And, well, sometimes neither can we

And early in the mornin', when we're back out on that highway

Pushin' back miles, listenin' to the gear shake

Wheel life

And we'll be lonesome, we'll be tried

Haw

Aw, keep it movin'

There ain't no money in it

But we'll have smiles on our faces

Doin' beers in our favorite places

Between here and old Helltown

Keep them ears to the ground

For a place to sleep each night

But keep your bags packed, when we do the last show

We're gonna drive the whole way home

Oh, early in the mornin', when we're back out on that highway

Pushin' back miles, listenin' to the gear shake

Wheel life

And we'll be lonesome, we'll be tried

Haw

Are you listenin', Uncle Bill?

See you down in the Arkansas

I said, buddy

We'll be doin' most things our way

I guess livin' life the hard way

Gets easier the further you're from home