Thumbin' My Way Home

(Ralph Davis)



One suitcase a heartache and a roadmap

I'm headin' east just out of San Antone

Thumbin' my way home to West Virginia

They're wonderin' why I stayed away so long.



Got a letter from mama in my pocket

She wrote to tell me dad had done passed on

One suitcase a heartache and a roadmap

A lonely man just thumbin' my way home.



Thumbin' my way home to West Virginia

A broken heart inside a lonesome man

Maybe I can help to ease mom's heartaches

And I'll try to help her understand.



Gonna take the job that dad left in the coalmines

And stay with mom so she won't be alone

I'll make up for ten long years of roamin'

That's why I'm thumbin' my way home.



Yes, that's why I'm thumbin' my way home...