Lyrics Walking Man - Guy Clark

Walking Man

Now what’s up with the walking man
I wonder where he’s gone
Marching down to Birmingham
I think I’ll tag along
There was a walking man come by here
A hundred years ago
Walkin' down the Trail of Tears
Out to Oklahoma-oh
Out to Oklahome
Hand me down my walkin' shoes
Hand me down my cane
Tune me up my mandolin
I’ll be on my way, hey
It sure does smell like rain
Woody Guthrie was a walking man
In the Dustbowl days
Had a six-string guitar in his hand
He killed a fascist every day
Chuck Berry is a walking man
So was Gandhi too
I’m gonna lace me up my ol' broghans
That’s just what I’ll do
I got walkin' left to do
Hand me down my walkin' shoes
Hand me down my cane
Tune me up my mandolin
I’ll be on my way, hey
If I had shoes like a walkin' man
I’ll tell you what I’d do
I’d walk away and not come back
Till I got to Katmandu-dah
Doo-dah, all the doo-dah day