Willie Jean

Sometimes I think about
The folks back home
And 12 miles of road
I used to roam

Sometimes I think about
My crazy Willie Jean
She ever get as far
As New Orleans?

We used to spend the summer
On a grassy riverbank
And drank hard water
From the railroad fillin' tank

Sometimes I think about
My crazy Willie Jean
Will she ever get as far
As New Orleans?

Daddy told me, "Son
I see you're gonna come to harm
I'm gonna see you
On that Knoxville County Farm"

Sometimes I think about
That crazy Willie Jean
She ever get as far
As New Orleans?

Sometimes I lie awake
And I cry, think about Willie Jean, oh
She ever get as far
As New Orleans?

Crazy Willie Jean
Far as New Orleans