you might see me down in alabama or baton rouge down in louisiana i might make it up to detroit city where people work hard and life is gritty it don t really matter where i am it s what i do it s what i can this old world has been good to me so i try to give back and i want to be free i was born in ontario i was born in ontario ontario ontario ontario i still like to sing a happy song once in a while and things go wrong i pick up a pen scribble on a page try to make sense of my inner rage one cold winter we went down south with daddy s typewriter for a couple of months i was born in ontario where the black fly bites and the green grass grows that s where i learned most of what i know because you don t learn much when you start to get old i left home at a tender young age cause mom and daddy never liked to stay in any one place for very long we just kept moving moving on 