It’s a long long road to travel alone
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1. I always thought I'd like to roam, one day I started alone,
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out
in this old wide wicked world, away from friends and home.
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It's a long long road to travel alone, and
when the day is gone
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no place to pillow my head at
night, only on the cold, cold stone
+ instrumental = CHORUS
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2. I've rambled around from town to town,
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now
it's time that I settled down.
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I've had my fill of rambling
around,
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and
now I am homeward bound.
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3. One day a letter came to me,
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and
this is what it read :
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“Come home my boy to the old
homestead,
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your
father and mother is dead !”
+ CHORUS +
instrumental = CHORUS
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4. It's been a long road to travel alone, I
wish I had never roamed,
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I thought I'd soon see my
mother and dad, but now I am left alone.
(The Carter Family)