On The Road [excerpt] - Jack Kerouac

[00:05.66]Can you hear me now?
[00:13.17]But anyway.
[00:14.85]Tonight also, I wrote a song, called “On the Road”.
[00:20.77]I’m just rather reading what I wrote all night.
[00:25.35]There are better things coming than what I wrote all night.
[00:27.50]Straight from the mind to the voice, with no hand intervening.
[00:31.38]Well, I left New York 1949.
[00:35.08](To)go across the country (wi)thout a dad-blame dime.
[00:39.68]Montana in the cold, cold fall.
[00:42.87]Found my father in the gambling hall.
[00:46.72]Father, Father where have you been?
[00:50.95]Been out here in the world since I was 10.
[00:54.54]Dear son, he said don’t worry about me.
[00:59.76]I’m about to die of pleurisy.
[01:06.93]Cross the Mississippi, cross the Tennessee,
[01:11.72]cross the Niagara, home I’ll never be.
[01:15.56]Home in Ol’Medora, home in Ol’Truckee.
[01:19.16]Apalachicola, home I’ll never be.
[01:23.34]For better or worse, through thick and thin.
[01:26.39]Like being married to the little woman.
[01:32.16]God loved me just like I loved him.
[01:35.15]Wants you to do just the same for him.
[01:39.71]The worms eat away but don’t worry, watch the wind.
[01:42.36]The worms eat away but don’t worry, watch the wind.
[01:46.82]So I left Montana in an Ol’freight train.
[01:51.64]The night my father died in the cold, cold rain.
[01:54.68]Rode up to Opelousas, rode to Wounded Knee,
[01:58.85]Rode to Ogallala, home I’ll never be.
[02:02.19]Home I’ll never be.