Headed south to work to pipeline

Make some cash while in the meantime

Baby jumped a bird and flew away



Lordy, Lordy, my, my mind's achin'

Drunk and down and out and makin' time

With anything that comes my way



Staggered to the Greyhound station

L.A. means my destination

Put me on that dog, take me away



Mobile blues baby, I can't make it

Got me down Lord, I can't take it

Here in Alabama for one more day



I called a friend in Frisco

He said baby's in L.A.

Here I am in Alabama two thousand miles away

Lord I got this mobile blues today



I left her back in Frisco, Lord

And she begged me not to go

I know somebody must have told her

That I travel and I lie



That they saw me drunk in mobile

With some wired up chick from Jacksonville

And brother did we look like we could fly



I staggered to the Greyhound station

L.A. means my destination

Put me on that dog, take me away

Lord I got this mobile blues today

Lord I got this mobile blues today