The Rattler - Goodbye Mr MacKenzie

I’m coming down the line

I’m a rattling boy

Rattling through the countryside

I’m a rattling boy

I just live from day to day

I’m a rattling boy

Eatin' them, cheatin' them, on my way

I’m a rattling boy

I’m going down the line

I’m going to a better time

I’m going to a better place

I don’t like people to know my face

I can help get those feet out of that clay

But I can’t take you all the way

I’m as stationary as a stream

I am aimless in extreme

I hold what I need in my right hand

I’m a rattling boy

I do the work my gut demands

I’m a rattling boy

I’m going down the line

I’m going to a better time

I’m going to a better place

I don’t like people to know my face

I can help get those feet out of that clay

But I can’t take you all the way

If I could hold you

If I could love you

Then I would do

I can help get those feet out of that clay

But I can’t take you all the way

I’m a rattling boy

Rattling boy

I can’t take you all the way

I won’t take you all the way