my name's billy jo mckay,   I just turned 16 yesterday   i'm gonna get the nerve one day   to get outta here   my ma passed on 3 years ago, they said   it was cancer and it took her slow   and ever since then i've been   sayin no to my daddy and my tears   now when you come down our road   you gotta watch the bump   right there across from   the garbage dump   you can find me out back   jumpin on the trampoline   and in the springtime   we'll be skippin scholl   we sneak off   to the cantrell's swimming pool   man, you can't get much cooler   than me and my friend darlene   now my grandaddy1s hands are worn   from 50 years of growin corn   back behind the house where   I was born before he had to sell   and my cousin eddie,   he got shot in the walmart parkin lot   yeah this little town's changed a lot,   he said it hurt like hell   my name's billy jo mckay,   it's a hot mississippi summer Saturday   daddy's on the front porch   with uncle dave drinkin dixie beer   16 years of being bored   my window's open, forget the door   hope there's some gas in the   old man's ford cause i'm outta here   i'm outta here, i'm outta here   maybe i'll go down to biloxi   or maybe to new orleans   or maybe hotlanta