D# Fm
While riding on a train goinʼ west
G# A#
I feel asleep for take my a rest
D# G# D#
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
A# G# D#
Concerning myself and the first few friend that I had.
Fm
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
G# A#
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
D# G# D#
Where we together weathered many a storm
A# G# D#
Laughinʼ and singing ʼtill the early hours of the mornʼ.
Fm
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
G# A#
Our words were told, our songs were sung
D# G# D#
Where we longed for nothinʼ and were quite satisfied
A# G# D#
Talking and a-joking about the world outside.
Fm
With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
G# A#
We never thought we could ever get old
A# G# D#
We thought we could sit forever in fun
A# G# D#
But our chances really was a million to one.
Fm
As easy it was to tell black from white
G# A#
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
D# G# D#
And our choices they were few and the thought never hit
A# D# D#
That the one road we travelled would ever shatter and split.
Fm
How many a year has passed and gone
G# A#
Many a gamble has been lost and won
D# G# D#
And many a road taken by many a first friend
A# G# D#
And each one Iʼve never seen again.
Fm
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
G# A#
That we could sit simply in that room again
D# G# D#
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
A# G# D#
Iʼd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.
