Daddy sits on the front porch swingin'
Look in' out on a bacon field
Used 
to be filled with burning tobacco
Now he knows it never will
My brother 
found work in Indiana
Sisters a nurse at the old folks home
Momma still 
cooking too much for supper
And me I've been a long time gone

Baby 
long time gone
No I aint hoed a row since I don't know when
Long time 
gone
And I aint comin' back again

Amilia plays that old church 
piano
Sittin' out on her daddy's farm
She always thought that we'd be 
together
Lord I never meant to do her harm

Said she could her me 
singin in the choir
Me I heard another song
I caught wind and hit the road 
runnin'
And lord I've been long time gone

Baby long time gone
Lord 
I aint had a purse since I don't know when
Long time gone
And it aint 
commin' back again

Now me I went to Nashville
Trying to beat the big 
deal
Playing down to Broadway
Getin' in the ahrd way
Livin' from a tip 
jar
Sleepin' in mah car
Huggin' my guitar ya im gonna be a 
staaaar

Now me until your singin' every sunday
Watchin' the children 
in the garden grove
Listen to the radio to hear what's cookin'
But the 
music aint got....NO SOUL!

Now they sound tired but they don't sound 
haggard
They got money but they don't got cash
They got Junior but they 
don't got Hank
I thank
I thank
I thank the rest is....

Long time 
gone
No I aint hit the roof since I don't know when
Long time gone
And 
it aint commin' back
I said Long time gone
No I aint parked a Ford since I 
don't know when
Long time gone
And it aint commin' back agaiiiin

I 
said a long time, long time, long time gone
Oh it's been a long 
time

Long time, long time, long time gooooone
Oh it's been a 
long
Tiiiiime
Gooooone

Long time, long time, long time gone....yea 
yea!