Keep Moving

How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too

They tell you to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do

The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam

Is to go to a new location and find myself a home

I can't go back to the homestead, the shack no longer stands

They said I wasn't needed, had no claim to the land

They said, "You better get moving, it's the only thing for you"

But how can you keep moving unless you migrate too?

Now if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway

The Board of Sanitation says, "Sorry, you can't stay"

Move on, move on, get moving it's their everlasting cry

Can't stay, can't go back, can't migrate, so where the heck am I?

I cannot stand the miseries that follow me as I roam

Unless I'm looking forward to a place I can call home

So I think I'll round up all the folks and see what we can do

'Cause how can you keep moving unless you migrate too?

• Artist:New Lost City Ramblers
• Album:Songs of the Depression (1959)