Ragtop plymouth Alabama plates
 
 Friday night no one's got a date
 
 Spinnin' on the curves temptin' fate
 
 Wishin' we were twenty one
 
 I look at Billy he looks at me
 
 And we burn rubber down route fourteen
 
 And pull in beneath the sign that reads
 
  
  Catfish beer and bait
 
 Gatorade and moonpies
 
 Next gas twenty five miles
 
 Sittin' at the counter
 
 Me and Billy Jones
 
 Haggard on the Philco dial
 
 Watchin' Caroline
 
 Don'tcha know she looks fine
 
 Stirrin' up the chili pot
 
 The world waited at the door
 
 Of Uncle Hickory's General Store
  
 
 Now, Billy winks at Caroline
 
 Says I like my women on the older side
 
 She leans real close and says "Honey Child"
 
 Come on back in a year or two
 
 And then her boyfriend comes
 
 And he looks real mean
 
 And we swagger out in our best James Dean
 
 And in the rear view we can see
  
 
 Catfish, beer and bait
 
 Gatorade and moonpies
 
 Next gas twenty-five miles
 
 Sittin' at the counter
 
 Me and Billy Jones
 
 Haggard on the Philco dial
 
 Watchin' Caroline
 
 Don'tcha know she looks fine
 
 Stirrin' up the chili pot
 
 The world waited at the door
 
 Of Uncle Hickory's General Store
  
  
 
 Every year about Christmas time
 
 I get a card from Billy and Caroline
 
 And it takes me back in time to...
  
  
 
 Catfish, beer and bait
 
 Gatorade and moonpies
 
 Next gas twenty-five miles
 
 Sittin' at the counter
 
 Me and Billy Jones
 
 Haggard on the Philco dial
 
 Watchin' Caroline
 
 Don'tcha know she looks fine
 
 Stirrin' up the chili pot
 
 The world waited at the door
 
 Of Uncle Hickory's General Store
  
 
 Yeah the world waited at the door
 
 Of Uncle Hickory's General Store