Hello highway, take me home to Lafayette   I gotta get away, let's just leave it at that   It's safe to say that I'm on the way, that I'll never find you now   For the wrong that I done, the wrongs that I done      Goodbye penitentiary, with all due respect to your authority   But they shoulda though twice before putting me in minimum security   It's safe to say that I'm getting away, they'll never catch me now   For the wrongs that I done      Hello countryside, scenery is so wide and so vast   But I can't appreciate you much, you know, I've been driving much too fast   It's safe to say the end is on its way, I can see them coming now   For the wrong that I done, the wrongs that I done