I was walking down the street one day And I knew that nothin was gonna be the same And I might catch the midnight train Cause I've got nowhere else to go
I bid you farewell I'll return some day With a thick gold chain and a pocket full of change With a fresh new suit and a white fedora Exotic cigarettes and a new Toyota And you'll question me when I say That way back when I used to know ya
I'll tell you tales of Californian waves And hitchhiking down on sixty eight But god had laid it in my fate To come back to you, like I said I would back then