The I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm Goin' Nowhere In a Hurry Blues - Steve Goodman

Miss Beverly Jones had a PhD in Physics

And she went to town to look for some work

Everyplace she applied they said that she was qualified

To be a secretary or a clerk

The word got out on the day she was born

But she was twenty years getting the news

And the «I don’t know where I’m going

But I’m going nowhere in a hurry» blues

My friend Fred felt lucky last Tuesday

And he took himself out to the track

He was armed with a hot tip and a hundred dollar bill

But that boy had to hitchhike back

The horse that he bet on was leading all the way

And then it threw off one of its shoes

And got the «I don’t know where I’m going

But I’m going nowhere in a hurry» blues

And it’s I don’t know where I’m going

I do not know how long the journey will last

And it’s I don’t know where I’m going

The future’s one big mirror of the past

And I’ve been losing so long, that it looks just like winning

Kick me again and I’ll come up grinning

All my time I’ve spent standing still

Its the world that’s spinnin' round so fast

And it was on a Sunday morning

About a hundred years ago

The message came without a warning

Though everybody’d told him so

The last thing that General Custer said

When he looked up and saw all the Sioux

Was, «I don’t know where I’m going

But I’m going nowhere in a hurry too».

A fatal dose of the «I don’t know where I’m going

But I’m going nowhere in a hurry» blues.