Ramblin', Scramblin' - Jerry Jeff Walker

Ramblin', scramblin'

Tryin' to get my mind untangled

Ain’t never seen nothin' in the whole wide world

That give more trouble than to try 'n' love a girl

Like most everybody I’ve had bad luck, you know I’ve been down and out and

didn’t have a buck

I’ve been hired and fired and loved and mistrusted and three or four women left

me busted

Took my money… Took my lovin'… Took my toothpaste too

First went ramblin' a few years ago, some fool woman she tried to tell me no

I had an ol' leather bag it wasn’t even mine, I had a heart full of sorrow and

a tangled up mind

She done it… She kept squezzing toothpaste in my ear… She said I couldn’t

leave

Took 3 or 4 steps backwards and gave her a dropkick right in the crotch

Her eyes lit up and said oh your leaving… yeah

Yeah, I headed for New Orleans Louisiana and all night drinkin' and jazz piano

That music in the air will set your toes a tappin' but those hustlin' women

sent me a packin'

Lickity split… I split

Met a gal down there said she came from way out west, said she could roll a

cigarette with just one hand

She proved it… she rolled me with the other

Yeah, I grabbed my bag I had my hat in my hand, took the advice to go west

young man

I figured now I’d finally learned my lesson, me and women weren’t messin'

Met another un… Wasn’t too good lookin'… But juggs whew

I’m not saying she’s a big chick or anything but one time I did ask her what

size bra she wore

She said 6 7/8.

I said my god what did you measure it with… She said Stetson

whew

Yeah well, I got to Californ-i-a, I figured it was time I headed her my way

She was talking about us and having a home and I was talking about us and

livin' in Uncle Henry’s basement

She said what… said she didn’t understand

I proceeded to take 3 or 4 steps backwards and give her a dropkick right in the

crotch

I said honey I believe in treating women gentle but first you’ve got to get

their attention

Yeah, the same things have happened over again, every time I meet a woman she

tries to pin me in

Found the only way to handle a woman is to keep your bags packed, keep movin',

steppin' lightly

Eyes forward, proud, determined, masculine

Probably get horny

Can’t live with 'em and you can’t live without em

That’s why I write so many of these weird songs I guess