Everyone in Nacadoches knew Tom Ame's would come to some bad end. Well the sheriff had caught him stealin' chickens and such. By the time that he was ten.
When I'm sad and blue. And I'm feeling all alone. There's a place that I go to. That no one knows. . Where no matter what I do. Won't nobody put me down.
My brother Jimmy, my other brother Jack. Went off down to Houston and they never come back. Mama wasn't gonna let her baby go yet. But there ain't nobody hirin' back in Lafeyette.
I went down to Taneytown. I went down to Taneytown. To see what I could see. . My mama told me never go. I'm damn near twenty two years old. Sometimes I fear this holler swallow me.