Walking back mile a lonely mile to see my girl from Kentucky Down the road something on my mind I gotta get to my Marie I've been away so long spend my years in the US Penn I was a bad, bad boy but I'm goin' straight again I wrote her everyday I begged her to reply But she has left me now I guess I'll die, die, die Running back with lovin' in my heart to get my girl from Kentucky Hobotrain keep on down the track 'till I reach my destiny The world is larger now I've been free from my six by four I'm gonna buy me a whole new life when I walk through her door I only hope and pray That she'll be waiting by If she's no longer there I think I'll die, die, die