I'm gonna write mama for money and tell her I'm coming home

I don't like big city livin' I've been here much too long

I can't find a job I've been looking walking the streets up and down

I'm gonna write mama for money cause I wanna leave this town



Well I know now that mama's right city's no place for me

I sure wish that I's back home cause that's where I wanna be

City's all right for some folks but that's not where I belong

So I'm gonna write mama for money cause mama I wanna come home

I can't find a job I've been looking...



Well I tried my luck at thumbin' a ride but that didn't work at all

Then I tried to hop aboard the freight train but the railroad boss just kicked me off

Winter's here and I'm cold and hungry but I won't steal or do wrong

I'm gonna write mama for money cause mama I wanna come home

I'm gonna write mama for money...