Where the road is dark and the seed is sowedWhere the gun is cocked and the bullet's coldWhere the miles are marked in the blood and goldI'll meet you further on up the road Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ringMy lucky graveyard boots and song to singI got a song to sing, keep me out of the coldAnd I'll meet you further on up the road. Further on up the roadFurther on up the roadWhere the way dark and the night is coldOne sunny mornin' we'll rise I knowAnd I'll meet you further on up the road. Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my timeSearchin' through the dust, lookin' for a signIf there's a light up ahead well brother I don't knowBut I got this fever burnin' in my soulSo let's take the good times as they goAnd I'll meet you further on up the road Further on up the roadFurther on up the roadFurther on up the roadFurther on up the road One sunny mornin' we'll rise I knowAnd I'll meet you further on up the roadOne sunny mornin' we'll rise I knowAnd I'll meet you further on up the road.

The baby's eyes are red from weepingIt's little heart is filled with painAnd Daddy cried they're taking MamaAway from us on the evening train I heard the laughter at the depotBut my tears fell like the rainWhen I saw them place that long white casketIn the baggage coach of the evening train As I turned to walk away from the depotIt seemed I heard her call my nameTake care of baby and tell him darlingThat I'm going home on the evening train I pray that God will give me courageTo carry on til we meet againIt's hard to know she's gone foreverThey're carrying her home on the evening train

I have been a roverI have walked aloneHiked a hundred highwaysNever found a homeStill in all I'm happyThe reason is, you seeOnce in a while along the wayLove's been good to me There was a girl in DenverBefore the summer stormOh, her eyes were tenderOh, her arms were warmAnd she could smile away the thunderKiss away the rainEven though she's gone awayYou won't hear me complain I have been a roverI have walked aloneHiked a hundred highwaysNever found a homeStill in all I'm happyThe reason is, you seeOnce in a while along the wayLove's been good to me There was a girl in PortlandBefore the winter chillWe used to go a-courtin'Along October hillAnd she could laugh away the dark cloudsCry away the snowIt seems like only yesterdayAs down the road I go I've been a roverI have walked aloneHiked a hundred highwaysNever found a homeStill in all I'm happyThe reason is, you seeOnce in a while along the wayLove's been good to me

If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game,I'd be a legend in my time.If they gave gold statuettes for tears and regrets,I'd be a legend in my time. But they don't give awards, and there's no praise or fameFor a broken heart that's been broken over love that's in vain. If loneliness meant world acclaim,Then everyone would know my nameI'd be a legend in my time.

We're the best partners this world's ever seen,Together as close as can be.But sometimes it's hard to find time in between,To tell you what you mean to me. You are the rose of my heart,You are the love of my life.A flower not fading nor falling apart,If you're tired, rest your head on my arm.Rose of my heart. When sorrow holds you in her arms of clay,It's rain drops that fall from your eyes.Your smile's like the sun come to earth for a day,You brighten my blackest of skies. You are the rose of my heart,You are the love of my life.A flower not fading nor falling apart,If you're cold, let my love make you warm.Rose of my heart. So hard times or easy times, what do I care,There's nothing I'd change if I could.The tears and the laughter are things that we share,Your hand in mine makes all times good. You are the rose of my heart,You are the love of my life.A flower not fading nor falling apart,If you're cold, let my love make you warm.Rose of my heart. You are the rose of my heart,You are the love of my life.A flower not fading nor falling apart,If you're cold, let my love make you warm.Rose of my heart.

[Chorus:]Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high,All those things that don't change, come what may.But our good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on.I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way. Guess I'll go down to Alberta, weather's good there in the fall.Got some friends that I can go to workin' for.Still I wish you'd change your mind, if I asked you one more timeBut we've been through that a hundred times or more. [Chorus] If I get there before the snow flies, and if things are looking good.You could meet me if I sent you down the fare,But by then it would be winter, not enough for you to do.And those winds sure do blow cold way up there. [Chorus]

I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail But I'm free from the chain gang now All the years I was known and respected till one day I was wrongly suspected I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin' rain but I'm free from the chain gang now [ guitar ] All the years I was known by a number how I kept my mind is a wonder But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty and I'm free from the chain gang nowI got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail But I'm free from the chain gang nowThere were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail But I'm free from the chain gang now.