Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket never let it slip away   Always be a man not a boy gone astray, astray   When you get half crazy from the August heat or on a frozen   Rotted road, with no one to complain to about your achin' feet      You're gonna walk that endless highway   Walk that highway till you die   All you children goin' my way   Better tell your home life sweet goodbye      When I see a detour up ahead I leave it far behind   Who knows what you're apt to find there   With the cost of livin', and the price of dying'   Look like to me this time I wont be buyin'      You're gonna walk that endless highway   Walk that highway till you die   All you children goin' my way   Better tell your home life sweet goodbye      When they get a scapegoat by the throat   It's hard labor and cold beans if you get away   You'll be eatin' from the poison peanut machine   I sing by night, wander by day   I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay      You're gonna walk that endless highway   Walk that highway till you die   All you children goin' my way   Better tell your home life sweet goodbye      Goodbye   Better tell your home life sweet goodbye