Fetch down the fiddle, rosin up the bow
  Don't play me nothing on the radio
  Don't make me remember the Alamo
  I'm feeling like a little bit of Cotton Eyed Joe
  
  No ragin' Cajun crawfish stew
  Fat batter come a lou mamma lou
  Boy howdy and howdy damn do
  Something like fine setting eyes on you
  
  Let me come down, I won't never go back up again
  Oh, hold me down
  Let me come home, I won't never go away no more
  Oh let me come down
  
  In a younger day back in Tennessee
  The muddy Mississippi used to call to me
  Float on a river and set yourself free
  Run from the farm and the family tree
  Run from the runaway boy
  
  So I've been all the places that I ever want to be
  I've seen all the people that I ever want to see
  I'm sick and tired of being lonely and free
  I'm ready today for what's waiting on me
  
  I'm gonna give up believing I was born to run
  And stop acting like a man that gets shot from a gun
  I'm putting down roots, I want to soak up sun
  And stay right here until my days are done
  
  Let me back down, I will never go up again
  Hold me down, tie me on down
  Let me go home, I will never go away no more
  Oh let me come home
  Oh let me go down