Let ’Er Go Jerry Jeff Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker

Last night I sat out on the boat dock and smoked a big cigar

Let my mind drift back along the road of life
I've traveled down so far
Started out a dreamer with a suitcase in hand
A guitar on my back without a care or a plan
A gypsy boy hitchhiking down the road
Ah here I go

I fell in love at nineteen and
I thought the world lay there in her eyes
But the kind of life i talked about
Was not the kind that she had in mind
I was just a skinny kid who played the guitar
One day i looked up and she went by in a car
Driven by some guy i didn't know
I let 'er go

I went down to New Orleans
I'd never been to that locale
Found some work bartending
And I started running with some pals
We had guitars and followed babe Stovall around
We met some Cajun girls who had just drove into town
They said that they were headed for the coast
We all said let's all go