Two years ago I left my home   Thought I'd make it big but all I've done is wrong   Planned some things that might impress the home folks   After two long years I'm still broke      Up and down the west coast I have been   From Dego to Seattle and then back here again   I'd like to get on board the bus and ride   I can't go back home, I still got my pride      Here I am in Frisco but my dreams keep takin' me   Back home to Franklin Tenessee      There's a place back there I kinda like   'Bout ten miles from Franklin out on Wilson Pike   They don't know it but I've wrote and told them lies   I said I'd made it big but I'm just gettin' by      I recall when I left my home town   I remember how I kinda put 'em down   I even said the town was much too small for me   And I'd never make it big in Franklin Tenessee      Here I am in Frisco but my dreams keep takin' me   Back home to Franklin Tenessee   Back home to Franklin Tenessee