all right i ve been thumbing rides travelling light walking the streets till past midnight tramping roads trails and lanes scaling cliffs fields and plains searching till the early dawn for that long legged girl with the short dress on riding trucks bikes and skis sailing lakes and brooks and seas driving wagons cars and jeeps walking stilts in ten foot leaps searching till the early dawn for that long legged girl with the short dress on and everywhere i go she s been and gone she s fine it s just too bad she s the travelling kind so fine i just can t rest till i make her mine i ve been from maine to tennessee mexico and waikiki rain or shine sleet or snow searching high searching low everything depends upon that long legged girl with the short dress on she s fine it s just too bad she s the travelling kind so fine i just can t rest till i make her mine i ve been from maine to tennessee mexico and waikiki rain or shine sleet or snow searching high searching low everything depends upon that long legged girl with the short dress on the long legged girl with the short dress on