I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train

On a rainy windy morning on the day that I was born in

That old sharecropper’s one room country shack

They said my mammie left me the day before she had me

Said she hit the road and never once looked back

And I just like to mention my grandma’s old age pension

Is the reason why I’m standing here today

I got all my country learning a milking and a churning

Picking cotton raisin’ hell and baling hay

I been to Georgia on a fast train honey

I wasn’t born oh yesterday

I got a good Christian raisin’ and an eighth grade education

Ain’t no need in y’all a treatin’ me this way

Oh my sweet Carolina I don’t guess I’ll ever find

Another woman put together like you are

I love your wiggle in your walking and your big city talking

And your brand new shiny Plymouth ragtop car

Well it’s hurry up and wait in this land of give and take

It seems like haste makes for waste every time

And I declare to my soul when I hear them ages roll

You better know I’m gonna get my share of mine

I been to Georgia on a fast train honey

I wasn’t born oh yesterday

I got a good Christian raisin’ and an eighth grade education

Ain’t no need in y’all a treatin’ me this way

I been to Georgia on a fast train honey

I wasn’t born oh yesterday

I got a good Christian raisin’ and an eighth grade education

Ain’t no need in y’all a treatin’ me this way

There ain’t no need in y’all a treatin’ me this way