Mississippi Number One

There ain't nothing but a two-lane highway
 Between me and my childhood home
 I was born in the county
 Where there was plenty of room to roam
 Couldn't get into too much trouble
 But I sure had a lot of fun
 Mimosa trees, the birds and the bees
 On Mississippi Number One
 Cuts right through the Delta
 Stretches far as two eyes can see
 It won't take you all the way to Vicksburg
 Or to Memphis Tennessee
 Westward lies the levee
 With the river running by its side
 And when the levee broke in '27
 There was no place to run and hide
 Mississippi Number One
 Carry me to my home
 Where the Delta Blues was born
 Along miles and miles of sandy loam
 Mississippi Number One
 Delta Great River Road
 I'm Greenville bound past the Indian Mounds
 On Mississippi Number One
 It's a dead end south at 14
 It's a dead end north at 49
 It's the last of the bluest highways
 I recommend it if you have the time
 It won't get you there in a hurry
 But you're sure to have a lot of fun
 Rolling Fork up to Friars Point
 On Mississippi Number One
 Mississippi Number One
 Carry me to my home
 Where the Delta Blues was born
 Along miles and miles of sandy loam
 Mississippi Number One
 Delta Great River Road
 I'm Greenville bound past the Indian Mounds
 On Mississippi Number One
 Ghosts of a thousand bluesmen
 Where many has met his end
 Fooling around with someone else's gal
 A Delta legend was born again
 It's a very familiar story
 Crossroads on a moonlit run
 And if you get there late the devil surely will wait
 On Mississippi Number One, woah
 Mississippi Number One
 Carry me to my home
 Where the Delta Blues was born
 Along miles and miles of sandy loam
 Mississippi Number One
 Delta Great River Road
 I'm Greenville bound past the Indian Mounds
 On Mississippi Number One
 Rolling Fork up to Friars Point
 On Mississippi Number One
 'Mosa trees, the bird and the bees
 On Mississippi
 Mississippi Number One