folks like me they re always moving it seems to be the only way to stay there ain t nothin too strange or too confusing it s better to change a little everyday some folks travel some folks settle some folks own and some folks rent some folks marry some just stay single everybody wonders where the money went chorus i don t wanna to live like a big shot rich man i don t wanna to live like a branded slave i just want to give some land to my children so they won t have to buy my grave i want to go back to california i want to be in that state once more when the floods come in and the quakes are over i hope i m not sittin on the ocean floor gonna be with my friends back in oklahoma gonna settle down on a piece of ground i ll have 100 wives and a mess of puppies i could live my life like a natural hound chorus gonna roll me a reefer seven foot long smoke that reefer i got turned on i hocked a tape deck made in hong kong i bought some more reefer now my money s gone chorus