WALKIN' MAN
(Guy Clark)

Now what's up with the walkin' man?
I wonder where he's gone.
Marchin' down to Birmingham,
I think I'll tag along.

Was a walkin' man come by here
A hundred years ago,
Walkin' down the trail of tears
Out to Oklahoma, oh,
Out to Oklahome.

Hand me down my walkin' shoes,
Hand me down my cane,
Make me up some talkin' blues,
I'll be on my way, hey,
Sure does smell like rain.

Woody Guthrie was a walkin' man
In the Dust Bowl days.
Had a 6-string guitar in his hands,
He killed a fascist every day.

Chuck Berry was a walkin' man,
So was Ghandi too.
I'm gonna lace me up my old Brogans,
That's just what I'll do -
I've got walkin' left to do.

Hand me down my walkin' shoes,
Hand me down my cane,
Tune me up my mandolin,
I'll be on my way, hey.

If I had shoes like a walkin' man,
Tell you what I'd do:
I'd walk away and not come back
Till I got to Kathmandu-da, doo-da,
All the doo-dah-day.

Before he wrote "Heroes" and "El Coyote", Guy once said that this was the "most political thing" he'd ever written.