'Cause I gotta roam And any place I hang my hat is home Free and easy, that's my style Howdy-do me, watch me smile Fare-thee-well me after a while 'Cause I gotta roam And any place I hang my hat is home ♪ Sweetenin' water, cherry wine Thank you kindly, feeling fine Kansas City, Caroline That's my honeycomb 'Cause any place I hang my hat is home Birds roostin' in the trees Pick up and go, and the goin' proves That's how it oughta be I pick up too when the spirit moves me ♪ Cross the river, 'round the bend "Howdy stranger!", "So long friend!" There's a voice in the lonesome wind That keeps whispering, "Roam" I'm going where a welcome mat is No matter where that is 'Cause any place I hang my hat is home ♪ I'm going where a welcome mat is No matter where that is 'Cause any place I hang my hat is home Any place I hang my hat is home That's home, my kind of roam 'Cause that's home