Story Behind The Song

A love song with a knife fight, and death. A fictional Prison Named Kokomo

Song Description

A boy has killed a man and is now on the run. He regrets what he has done and tells his mother that he can't come home.

Lyrics

Rolling on Back Home Again

Rolling down the river to a New Orleans.
I met the prettiest little girl I had ever seen.
Well, don't you know she was a Memphis queen.
Rolling on back home again!
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Mama don't you call me because I can come.
Got a broken heart and I'm a man on the run.
Mama don't you call me because I can't go.
I'm on the run from Kokomo!

Met this little girl in a River Café.
She took me by the hand and she knew what to say.
Took me to her roommate in that innocent way!
Rolling on back home again!
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Woke up in the morning, and she was nowhere in sight.
She had taken my love, and left in the night.
She stole my money, and she broke my heart.
Rolling on back home again!
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Raced out of bed, I was quick on my feet.
Back on her trail, down to River Street.
Caught her with a pimp, named Fancy Dan!
Rolling on back home again!
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Run didn't Dan, he reached for his knife.
But quicker was I, took his life!
A way that pretty girl she did run!
Rolling on back home again!
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Better is life than in Kokomo!
Men in chains, that's where they go!
Drop the door, the ropes tight they grow!
Rolling on back home again!


Mama don't you call me because I can come.
Got a broken heart and I'm a man on the run.
Mama don't you call me because I can't go.
I'm on the run from Kokomo!