Get That Vagabond Feeling Lyrics - Steve Forbert

VERSE 

Lazy, weeping willow 

Swaying by a stream 

Lay your body easy down 

And drift into a dream 

Way down south in Dixie 

How long has it been? 

You caught that ride to Wichita 

And you ain't been back again 

CHORUS 

Just-a get that vagabond feeling 

Get it on the road 

Get it like Bo Diddley does 

And get it like Tom Joad 

And get it like a river does 

Flowin' to the sea 

(And) get it like a tumbleweed 

Get it like you're free 

VERSE 

San Francisco summer 

Foghorns in the night 

Locked inside that life of yours 

Where nothin' works out right 

Standing by the highway 

People passing by 

Your salty tears welled up inside 

And you can't even cry 

(REPEAT CHORUS) 

(INSTRUMENTAL BREAK) 

VERSE 

You got no close companions 

No one knows you well 

Up all night with strangers 

In a Baltimore hotel 

No one knows your mama 

Now one knows your pa 

And no one knows the life you left 

In Batesville, Arkansas 

(REPEAT CHORUS)