When I was a young boy,
  it weren't too late
  I had me a Buick, was a '48
  Yeah, tons and tons
  of rollin' steel
  With a long black hoad
  and four big wheels.
    Well, I worked so hard
  I flunked out of school
  And everybody said
  I was a teenage fool
  Meanwhile I wrote me
  a new set of rules
  'Bout how to get gone
  and how to be cool.
    Well, we hit the road
  like a ton o' bricks
  With an old guitar
  and a few hot licks
  We were rockin' in the city
  and rockin' in the sticks
  Didn't make much money
  but we had a lotta kicks.
    Get gone, get gone
  Get gone, oh yeah, get gone
  Get gone, get gone
  Get gone, oh yeah, get gone.
    Well, then one day
  a city slicker walked up
  Said, son, I'm gonna make you
  a million bucks
  Gonna fly around the country
  in a big ol' plane
  Gonna get a lotta drugs,
  gonna feel no pain.
    Well, I knew we were breakin'
  that highway rule
  When we pulled outta town
  a little low on fuel
  That big ol' plane
  fell from the sky
  Me and the boys
  kissed the world goodbye
  Yeah, me and the boys
  kissed the world goodbye.
    Get gone, get gone
  Get gone, oh yeah, get gone
  Get gone, get gone
  Get gone, oh yeah, get gone.