Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket never let it slip away
Always be a man not a boy gone astray, astray
When you get half crazy from the August heat or on a frozen
Rotted road, with no one to complain to about your achin' feet
You're gonna walk that endless highway
Walk that highway till you die
All you children goin' my way
Better tell your home life sweet goodbye
When I see a detour up ahead I leave it far behind
Who knows what you're apt to find there
With the cost of livin', and the price of dying'
Look like to me this time I won't be buyin'
You're gonna walk that endless highway
Walk that highway till you die
All you children goin' my way
Better tell your home life sweet goodbye
When they get a scapegoat by the throat
It's hard labor and cold beans if you get away
You'll be eatin' from the poison peanut machine
I sing by night, wander by day
I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay
You're gonna walk that endless highway
Walk that highway till you die
All you children goin' my way
Better tell your home life sweet goodbye
Goodbye
Better tell your home life sweet goodbye