How Can You Keep on Movin’

[Verse 1]
How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
They tell you to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
I'll tell you why I'm moving‚ the reason why I roam
Is to go to a new location and find myself a home

[Verse 2]
I can't go back to the homestead‚ my shack no longer stands
They said I wasn't needed‚ and had no claim to the land
They said, "You better get moving, that's the only thing for you"
But how can you keep on moving unless you migrate too?

[Verse 3]
And if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway
The Board of Sanitation says‚ "Sorry, you cannot stay"
Go on, get along‚ and get moving is their everlasting cry
Can't stay, can't go back, and can't migrate, so where in the heck am I?

[Verse 4]
And the scenery by the roadside is a mighty dreary sight
If in this whole wide country you've got no place to lie
I never was one for rambling, my folks is the settling kind
I've got to keep on looking for that home that I hope some day to find

[Verse 5]
No, I cannot stand the miseries a-following me around
Unless I'm a-looking forward to a place I can settle down
So I guess we oughta talk things over and see what we can do
'Cause how can you keep on moving unless you migrate too?

I guess we oughta round up all the folks and see what we can do
'Cause how can you keep moving unless you migrate too?

[POSTLUDE: SPOKEN]
In case the meaning of that song isn't quite clear, the word "migrate" there is used in the sense of moving to find a new home. And its about the Okies that were on their way to California and when they got to the border, they found the signs up there saying "No more migration". And the border guards were there, and they said "Turn around and keep on moving". So that's what the "How can you keep on movin' unless you migrate too" means