From a Boxcar Door

I've seen the 'gators and the skeeters

Down in the swamps of louisian

I've seen the painted desert

I've traveled across texas burning sand

I've seen the great rocky mountains

That reach up where the mighty eagle soars

You know big or small i've seen it all

From a boxcar door

I've seen those wheat fields out in kansas

In iowa i've watched the tall corn grow

Seen 'em picking fruit in florida

Watched 'em digging taters up in idaho

I've seen the factories in detroit

I've seen a small country general store

And big or small i've seen it all

From a boxcar door

I've seen the coal mines in kentucky

I've seen the steel mills in birmingham

I've seen the appalachians seen the hoover

And i've seen every other dam

I've seen the great salt lake in utah

I've heard the mighty ni-agra roar

Yeah big or small i've seen it all

From a boxcar door

I've seen the great potomac river

The wide missouri and the o-hi-o

I've seen the colorado

I've watched the mighty mississippi flow

I've seen the great atlantic ocean

I've seen california's golden shore

You know big or small i've seen it all

From a boxcar door

I've seen the black man in the ghettos

On the reservation i've watched the navajo

I've seen the migrant workers

In the fields from maine down to mexico

I've seen the rich man in his penthouse

The shanties and the shacks of the poor

Yeah big or small i've seen it all

From a boxcar door

But my travels are not over

There's lots more that i've just gotta see

Every day's a new adventure

And i thank the lord for letting me be free

When i hop aboard a boxcar

And hear that mighty engine start to roar

You know big or small i'll see you all

From a boxcar door

Yeah big or small i'll see you all from a boxcar door