She's just a drifter and she drifts from town to town   She's never been branded and she's never been tied down   She drifts for a while then she might drift back to town   And somethin' keeps callin' she has to move on to new ground      Wild as a prairie wind, warm as the hot desert sun   Places she's never seen keeps her from settlin' down   Just like a free runnin' river she rambles and rolls   The highway's her heaven, she makes the whole world her own      'Cause she's a drifter don't mean that I don't care about her   Sometimes I live with her, sometimes I'm livin' without her   Just when I think that I'm finally beginnin' to tame her   That's when she makes me feel bein' tied down kinda shames her      Down to the ocean, she might stay a while on the beach   Then caught by the high tide she drifts further on out of reach   There's no way a-tellin' how soon you may see her again   Nature's her mother and that makes her kin to the wind      'Cause she's a drifter don't mean that I don't care about her   Sometimes I live with her, sometimes I'm livin' without her   Just when I think that I'm finally beginnin' to tame her   That's when she makes me feel bein' tied down kinda shames her