Headed down to Baton Rouge |To ease my worried mind|Headed down to Baton Rouge|Maybe I'll go to night||Been here in Knoxville town |With my Danny Ray|Forgot how Louisiana |Feels in the month of May||Met my sister Lizzie Jane |Just the other night|Made our plans to leave Knoxville town|When that moon burns bright||Sit down by that ponchatrain|Visit New Orleans |Rest a spell at cafe Demond |Big easy rock me to sleep||Danny Ray was good to me |For nigh on fifteen years|I ain't no good for leavin him|cryin In his blue eyed tears||Woman's made from Adam's bones|I got a mean streak 3 miles long|Danny Ray was good to me|But with that burnin room I'm gone