and there s a home time coming in this big city town i got a dollar in my pocket and my feet on the ground in the morning a fast train gonna take me right down to the center of the city and to the center of the town and when i step off of that train into them streets i m gon say i got a dollar in my pocket and my feet here to stay got a dollar in my pocket baby and my feet my feet on the ground i got a dollar in my pocket baby and my feet on the ground and here god was a sailor on that ocean so blue he d see the world from the water but his heart would stay true and he would curse down the waves as they rose and fell for taking him from his city and from the wind on his shores and when he step off of that boat onto that dock and kneel and pray and thank god for not taking his soul away got a dollar in my pocket baby and my feet on the ground i got a dollar in my pocket baby and my feet on the ground it seems i ve been walking now for years at a time come through hell and high water come through desert and pine and in these boots i worn down the miles to the store just need a city with broad shoulders where i can later rest my bones and when i reach that city and from that market square i ll cry thank god for chicago and the wind that she bears yeah got a dollar in my pocket baby and my feet on the ground got a dollar in my pocket baby and my feet on the ground