Laughing River - Robert Earl Keen

I’m goin away

'cause I gotta busted heart

I’m leavin' today

If my Travel

All will start

And I reckon where I’m headed

I might need me different clothes-

Way up in Michigan

Where the Laughing River flows

Twenty years in the minor leagues-

Ain’t no place I didn’t go

Well I gotta few hits

But I never made the show

And I could hang on for a few years

Doin what I’ve done before

I wanna hear the Laughing River

Flowin' right outside my door

My cousin Ray

Said he’s got a job for me

Where the houses are cheap

And he knows this nice lady

He said she even saw me play once

Said she smiled at my name

Well upon the Laughing River

Could be a whole new game

So goodbye to the bus

Good bye to payin' dues

Goodbye to the cheers

And goodbye to the booze

Well I’m trading in this old bat

For a fishing pole

I’m gonna let the Laughing River

Flow right into my soul