Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich   And welcome me back to town   Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlour   And I'll tell you how it all went down   Out with the truckers and the kickers    and the cowboy angels   And a good saloon in every single town   Oh, and I remember something you once told me   And I'll be damned if it did not come true   Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down   And they all lead me straight back home to you      `Cause I headed West to grow up with the country   Across those prairies with the waves of grain   And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea   And I thought about a calico bonnet from    Cheyenne to Tennesee      We flew straight across that river bridge, last night   half past two   The switchman wave his lantern goodbye and good day as we   went roling through   Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel   And now I know just what I have to do      And the man on the radio won't leave me alone   He wants to take my money for something that I've never   been shown   And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue see   And I thought about a calico bonnet from    Cheyenne to Tennessee      The news I could bring I met up with the king   On his head an amphetamine crown   He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt   And lighted out for some desert town   Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels   And a good saloon in every single town      But I remember something you once told me   And I'll be damned if it did not come true   Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down   And they all lead me straight back home to you      Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down   And they all lead me straight back home to you