D# Fm
While riding on a train going west,
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I fell asleep for to take my rest,
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Iiiiii dreamed a dream that made me sad,
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Concerning myself ... and the first few friends I had.
D# Fm
With half damp eyes I stared to the room,
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Where my friends and I spent many'n afternoon,
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Wheeeeeere we together weathered many a storm,
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Laughing and singing ... 'till the early hours of the morn.
D# Fm
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
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Our words was told, our songs was sung;
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Weeeeee longed for nothing and were satisfied,
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Joking and talking ... about theee wooorld outside.
D# Fm
With hungry hearts through the heat and cold,
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We never much thought we could get very old;
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Weeeeee thought we could sit forever in fun,
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And our chances really ... was a million to one.
(HARMONICA PART)
D# Fm
As easy it was to tell black from white,
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It was all that easy to tell wrong from right;
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An' our choices they was few, so the thought never hit,
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That the one road we traveled ... woul'ever shatter or split.
D# Fm
Ah many a year has passed and gone,
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Many' gamble has been lost and won;
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And many a road taken by many a first friend,
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And each one ... I've never seen again.
D# Fm
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
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That we could sit simply in that room again;
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Teeeeeeen thousand dollars at the drop of a haaaaaat,
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I'd give it all gladly ... if our lives could be like that.