| Oh Roberta round, «pack your trunk and go»
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| Yes, he came back home last night
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| My wife said «Honey, I’m done with beans
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| I’m gonna pass for cream.»
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| Oh my little honey, don’t you make me go
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| I’ll get a job if you allow me sure
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| I’ll crapshoot yes I will shine
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| Good little baby, just let me work
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| When you buy chicken, all I want is the bone
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| When you buy beer, be satisfied with foam
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| I’ll work both night and day
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| I’ll be careful what I say
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| Honey (What?) please, let me bring my clothes back home
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| Down the track this mornin' she did stroll
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| Well a accident, her foot got caught in a hole
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| I’m goin' to tell you the truth
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| A natural that poor man
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| Nice girl (but) dresses turn that railroad track is round
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| I’m going to buy 'em all
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| Cigarettes and chewing tobacco that I can
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| A natural rover that a' heavy poor man
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| I am a ramblin' gamblin' man, I’ve gambled in many town
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| I’ve rambled this wide world over, I rambled this wide world around
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| I had my ups and downs through life and bitter times I saw
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| But I never knew what misery was till I left old Arkansas
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| I started out one morning to meet the early train
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| He said, «You better work with me, I have some land to drain
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| I’ll give you fifty cents a day, your washing, board and all
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| And if you’ll be a different man for the sake of old Arkansas
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| I worked six months for the rascal, Joe Heron was his name
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| He fed me on corn dodger, it was hard as any rung
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| My tooth’s all got loosened, And my/the (***************)
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| That was the kind of hash I got for the state of old Arkansas
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| Travellin' man, I’ve traveled all around this world
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| Travellin' man, I’ve traveled from land to land
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| Travellin' man, I’ve traveled all around this world
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| Well it t’ain’t no use ridin' on through 'cause I’ve traveled this land |