Let's go on a beer run, baby, I'm giving the word Let's make like a bird and make a migration 'Cause I spent four dollars, baby, last night in a bar For a PBR, can't afford the libation I know a spot in Virginia They'll pour a shot of gin right in ya For cheaper than a coke And you can sit and smoke And cigarettes are almost free Vices get cheaper the deeper south you go You can't afford to be sober We'll go where the prices are so low We'll be dead by October Graveyard in Savannah, baby Just look at the dates Seems most of these mates didn't make it to thirty Confederate daughters, maybe They may have been strong It's hard to live long when living so dirty They cry out, "Dixie don't forget us Sweet land where pork costs less than lettuce It's 1864, we'll stay for just one more Have one, you might as well have three" 'Cause vices get cheaper the deeper south you go Lives don't seem so pricey either We'll go with our dignity and dough Then we'll head back north with neither