I'm going on a great, great journey, 
better home to find. 
When Jesus calls me,
I'll be ready to leave this world behind. 

I've had enough of drinking whiskey. 
Mama asked me before she died:
Trade your bottle fo ra Bible;
join me on the ther Side, so 

l'm going on a great, great journey,
better home to find. 
When Jesus calls me,
I'll be ready to leave this world behind.

Give my guitar to my Daddy: 
He stood by me for so long.
Give my fiddle to my brother, 
Bid them play a happy song, because

I'm going on a great, great journey, 
better home to find. 
When Jesus calls me, 
I'll be ready to leave this world behind.

Here's some whiskey l left for you; everybody take aturn. 
Float my pine box in the river. 
Light it up and watch it burn.

For I'm going on a great, great journey,
better home to find.
When Jesus calls me, 
I'll be ready to leave this world behind.