On a rainy Wednesday morning, on the day that I was born   In my old sharecropper's one room country shack   They said my mommie left me the day before she had me   Said she hit the road and never once looked back      And I just like to mention that my grandma's old age pension   Is the reason why I'm standing here today   I got all my country learning and a milking and a churning   Picking cotton raisin' hell and baling hay      I been to Georgia on a fast train honey   I wouldn't born no yesterday   I got a good Christian raisin' and an eight grade education   Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way      And now sweet Carolina, I don't guess   I'll ever find another woman put together like you are   With your wiggle and you're walking and your big city talking   And your brand new shiny Plymouth rag top car      Hey, let's hurry up and wait in this world of give and take   It seems like haste it makes me waste every time   I declare to my soul when you hear those ages roll   You better know I get my share of mine      I been to Georgia on a fast train honey   I wouldn't born no yesterday   I got a good Christian raisin' and an eight grade education   Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way      I been to Georgia on a fast train honey   I wouldn't born no yesterday   I got a good Christian raisin' and an eight grade education   Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way   Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way