When I was a young boy,
    it weren't too late
I had me a Buick, was a '48
Yeah, tons and tons
    of rollin' steel
With a long black hoad
    and four big wheels.

Well, I worked so hard
    I flunked out of school
And everybody said
    I was a teenage fool
Meanwhile I wrote me
    a new set of rules
'Bout how to get gone
    and how to be cool.

Well, we hit the road
    like a ton o' bricks
With an old guitar
    and a few hot licks
We were rockin' in the city
    and rockin' in the sticks
Didn't make much money
    but we had a lotta kicks.

Get gone, get gone
Get gone, oh yeah, get gone
Get gone, get gone
Get gone, oh yeah, get gone.

Well, then one day
    a city slicker walked up
Said, son, I'm gonna make you
    a million bucks
Gonna fly around the country
    in a big ol' plane
Gonna get a lotta drugs,
    gonna feel no pain.

Well, I knew we were breakin'
    that highway rule
When we pulled outta town
    a little low on fuel
That big ol' plane
    fell from the sky
Me and the boys
    kissed the world goodbye
Yeah, me and the boys
    kissed the world goodbye.

Get gone, get gone
Get gone, oh yeah, get gone
Get gone, get gone
Get gone, oh yeah, get gone.