Streets of Bakersfield

Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakam



(Dwight)

I came here looking for something

I couldn't find anywhere else

Hey, I'm not trying to be nobody

Just want a chance to be myself



(Buck)

I've done a thousand miles of thumbin'

I've worn holes in both my heels

Trying to find me something better

Here On the streets of Bakersfield



Chorus: (Dwight & Buck)

You don't know me, but you don't like me

You say you care less how I feel

But how many of you that sit and judge me

Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?



--- Instrumental ---



(Dwight)

Spent sometime in San Francisco

I Spent a night there in the can

They threw this drunk man in my jail cell

I Took fifteen dollars from that man

(Buck)

Left him my watch and my old house key

Don't want folks thinkin' that I'd steal

Then I thanked him as I was leaving, and

I headed out for Bakersfield



Chorus: (Dwight & Buck)

You don't know me, but you don't like me

You say you care less how I feel

But how many of you that sit and judge me

Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?



Hey You don't know me, but you don't like me

You say you care less how I feel

But how many of you that sit and judge me

Have walked the streets of Bakersfield?



(Dwight)

How many of you that sit and judge me

(Dwight & Buck)

Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?..