Daddy?s handshake was strong
 Them I climbed aboard that Greyhound
 Eighteen and glad to be gone

 Took a rented room on Broadway
 As I unpacked everything I owned
 I found a note my momma left me
 With a Bible and a bus ticket home
 ( It said )

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 One will get you where you?re going
 When you haven?t got a prayer
 And one will bring you back son
 If your dreams ain?t waiting there
 You?re out on your own now
 We won?t be there to fall back on
 But you know we?re never father
 Than a Bible and a bus ticket home.

 The years have come and gone and taken
 The only thing in life I ever counted on
 But I?m going back tomorrow
 To lay flowers at their stone.

 I can almost hear my momma calling
 Saying son come back where you belong
 You?ve got all you need to get there
 A Bible and a bus ticket home

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