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