On a rainy Wednesday morning that's the way that I was born in 
That old sharecropper's one room country shack 
They said my mommie left me the day before she had me 
Said she hit the road and never once looked back 
And I just like to mention my grandma's old age pension 
Is the reason why I'm standing here today 
I got all my country learning a milking and a churning 
Picking cotton raisin' hell and baling hay 
I been to Georgia on a fast train honey I wouldn't born no yesterday 
I got a good Christian raisin' and an eight grade education 
Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way 

Now sweet Carolina I don't think I'll ever find 
Another woman put together like you are 
I like your wiggle in your walking and your big city talking 
And your brand new shiny Plymouth ragtop car 
Well it's hurry up and wait in this land of give and take 
It seems like haste it makes for waste everytime 
I declare to my soul when you hear those ages roll 
You better know I'm gonna get my share of mine 
I been to Georgia on a fast train... 

I been to Georgia on a fast train...