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.