This old highway seems so lonesome   When you're going where you've been   And a lonesome song can make you cry   Time and time again      By listenin' to a friend of mine   Ten years ago today   I'd have a better job   Than what I've got today      But the billboards on the highway   And the brake lights on the cars   Make me jump out on the highway   With my bag and my guitar      If she comes or if she goes   It doesn't matter anymore   'Cause I'm ridin' my thumb to Mexico      Ridin' my thumb to Mexico   It don't matter when or how I go   I'll ride this thumb 'til I see her again   So I'm ridin' my thumb to Mexico      Well, the reason why she left me's   Not the reason that I'm here   I'm a travlin' kind of man   Just need a change of atmosphere      If there's any place I haven't been   At all that's where I'll go   So I'm ridin' my thumb to Mexico      Ridin' my thumb to Mexico   It don't matter when or how I go   I'll ride this thumb 'til I see her again   So I'm ridin' my thumb to Mexico