On the Road Again

The words

A man lists the absurd horrors of his girlfriend's household and wonders why she expects him to move in.

The singer describes visiting the home of the woman he is seeing, where every room and every relative is stranger than the last. Each verse piles up another grotesque or ridiculous detail of the family's daily life, and each ends with him turning to her in disbelief at the idea that he could live there. It is a comic song, close to a cartoon, sung with mock exasperation over a jaunty, rattling band and bursts of harmonica.