Intro: Verse: Pardon me sir, you got a dime? I'm trying to find my way back to New Orleans. Broke down and fallen on hard times, I need just one kind favor to get back on my feet. Lost my ticket for a Greyhound bus, when it left me in the dust and gone away. Man at the station says, "Boy get lost, start going your own way." Im walking 40 days and nights under the Texas sun, won't someone help me please? Pardon me sir, you got a dime? I'm trying to find my way back to New Orleans. Verse: I did my time in Baton Rouge, in Birmingham and Huston, too, but all I ever see Was weary faces just like mine, waiting in endless lines, just'a trying to find a seat. Chorus: