[Girl] From Tennessee There's a [girl] from Tennessee Just as [dark] as she could be And she never went to church or Sunday School Says she went one day When she heard that preacher say: I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die The life I aim on living's very high Oh, sticks and stones gonna break-a my bones Talk about me when I'm dead and gone But I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die I'm gonna run me a cemetery of my own If you don't let my gal there alone Gonna buy me a razor, gonna scrape the blade Gonna lay some son of a gun in the shade For I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die