I'm A Law-abiding Man. That Is, If

I Went To My Room And Packed A Change Of Clothes, Got My Banjo, And Started Walking Down The Road. Soon I Found Myself On The Open Highway Headed East.

The Human Animal Is A Beast That Eventually Has To Die. If He's Got Money, He Buys And He Buys And He Buys. The Reason He Buys Everything He Can Is Because Of Some Crazy Hope That One Of The Things He Buys Will Be Life Everlasting.

I Got Into A Brawl One Night In A Saloon In Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, A Great Director, Saw Me Put Out A Couple Of Hecklers And Figures There Was Some Big Daddy In Me, Just Lyin' Dormant. And Out It Came. People Still Do Call Me Big Daddy, But To Me, Inside, I'm No Big Daddy At All.

The Cool Wind Blew In My Face And All At Once I Felt As If I Had Shed Dullness From Myself. Before Me Lay A Long Gray Line With A Black Mark Down The Center. The Birds Were Singing. It Was Spring.

To Be A Man Requires That You Accept Everything Life Has To Give You, Beginning With Your Name.