I ain't going to go to work, I ain't going to go to school   Life is just too complicated, to be somebody's fool   My side of the mountain, my side of the road   To live on what you need, not on what you own      To go, and make do, to get back to nature   To live, and breathe, to see but not to own   I'm going to camp out, in the trees by the freeway   Misty ice-plant, running water, and plenty of shade      Well first I'll get me a hammock   Then I'll get some food   Then I guess I could read or write   I won't have much to do   No more getting up early   Or having to go to bed   I'll do just what I want to do   Whatever comes to my head      To go, and make do, to get back to nature   To live, and breathe, to see but not to own   I'm going to camp out, in the trees by the freeway    Misty ice-plant, running water, and plenty of shade      There's a few things a modern man begins to miss from the modern world   Like a car, a color TV, a radio and a modern girl   But I'd rather miss all of that than get caught in the rat race trap   It really ain't so bad learning to live and breathe as a natural man      I ain't going to go to work, I ain't going to go to school   Life is just too complicated, to be somebody's fool    My side of the mountain, my side of the road   To live on what you need, not on what you owe