I set out on the voyage of the conquering fools,   Lookin' for the gold and the modern day jewels   It come to pass what was stuck in my head,    If I didn't quit on looking that I'd probably be dead      I hit the road and I rolled up north,   lookin for the origin, the place of my birth,   I didn't notice when I ran a red sign,   hopin' that everything would really be fine      Well people come and people go    but they never know what is going on   So they gotta try to be what they wanna be   What the hell is happenin' to me?      I hit the road and I rolled up north,   lookin for the origin, the place of my birth,   I didn't notice when I ran a red sign,   hopin' that everything would really be fine      Well I set out about an hour ago   Lookin for my gold and I'm sayin a-oh   And I went down lookin for that big that big baby big brass show   So I, I went and then I started to go   Walkin down that same old same old road   Thinkin to myself it's quite a struggle   What am I going to do tomorrow?   I'm gonna find my gold   And conquer me some fools, yeah      A long, long time ago    I found myself looking for fools   And what I did not let myself know   Is that these fools were inside my mind   I loved to do right all the time   But I found there are times when I loved to do so wrong   And I know that the fools are at the bottom of it all   When no substance can control you   You done conquered that fool   And when that alcohol can not own you   You done conquered that fool   And when no one person runs you   You must conquer that fool   And when you're learnin in books everything you need to know   Well you can conquer them fools   You can conquer them fools that's right   Ya'll don't have to go