Send My Body Home

Now I lay me down to sleep Pray the Lord my soul to keep If I should die before I wake Please send my body home I don't like Virginia I went there in the winter There were good ol' boys in T-shirts With a case or two of beer And though I didn't show my fear I could tell that there was danger in their eyes And these people in the country Look a lot like one another Just like maybe they're related To everybody here And though I didn't get too near Well, I think that I can generalize There are people in Virginia Who I know are educated And I'm sure they hardly notice These Neanderthals on wheels I don't like Alabama I was there when it was raining And these good ol' boys in Chevys Leave their mufflers back at home There were chickens in the gutters There was murder in the drive I was not the first to utter Let me make it back home dead or alive Don't let me die here If I should die here Don't let me lie here Out here alone Don't let me die here If I should die here Don't say good bye here Send my body home I don't like the Dakotas 'Cause there aren't any people An occasional oasis And some stupid tourist traps And though I kind of liked the sunsets I could tell that they were always the same And these people in the desert Are the same as all the others Saving up for indoor plumbing With an outhouse in the back There's a dinner bell that's ringing And the kin folk will arrive And you know I'll break out singing If I make it to the border alive Don't let me die here If I should die here Don't let me lie here Out here alone Don't let me die here If I should die here Don't say good bye here Send my body home There's a cousin in the bathroom There's a cousin in the stable There's a cousin at the window Who's emotionally unable To be anything but dazzled When the family assembles And he works so hard at counting All the cousins he resembles And the man who drove the tractor Must have done a bit of drinking When he ran into the neighbors Just to score some extra points He was tryin' to hit some pigeon Who was tryin' to survive And you know I'll find religion If I make it to the suburbs alive Don't let me die here If I should die here Don't let me lie here Out here alone Don't let me die here If I should die here Don't say good bye here Send my body home