Well, I learned how to walk and I learned how to run in Bakersfield   Should've done time over things I'd done in Bakersfield   I tasted my first taste of romance in Bakersfield   I learned how to fight and I learned how to dance in Bakersfield      Dancin' on Beer Can Hill   Overlookin' Bakersfield   Remembering my first thrill   Dancin' on Beer Can Hill      I made part of my livin' in a honky tonk bar in Bakersfield   Picked a little cotton and a lotta guitar in Bakersfield   Well you couldn't do better but you won't do bad in Bakersfield   Slow dancin' out here is sort of a fad in Bakersfield      I drank a lot of beer since I was a kid in Bakersfield   Did a little time over things I did in Bakersfield   Ten years later made me of the year in Bakersfield   And I'm duckin' and dodgin' and dancin' out here in Bakersfield