Headed south to work a pipeline Make some cash while in the meantime Baby jumped a bird and flew away Lordy, Lordy, my, my mind's achin' Drunk and down and out and makin' time With anything that comes my way Staggered to the Greyhound station L.A. ma'am my destination Put me on that dog take me away Mobile blue Lord, I can't make it Got me down Lord, I can't take it Here in Alabama for one more day Lord I called a friend in Frisco Lord He said baby's in L.A. Here I am in Alabama and two thousand miles away Lord I got them mobile blues today Aw I left her back in Frisco, Lord She begged me not to go I know somebody must have told her That I travel and I lie That they saw me drunk in mobile With some wired up chick from Jacksonville And brother did we look like we could fly I staggered to the Greyhound station L.A. ma'am my destination Put me on that dog take me away I got them mobile blues today I got them mobile blues today