text: While riding on a train goin west
  I fell asleep for to take my rest
  I dreamed a dream that made me sad
  Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
  With half damp eyes I stared to the room
  Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
  Where we together weathered many a storm
  Laughin and singin til the early hours of the morn
  By the old wooden stove where our hats were hung
  Our words were told and our songs were sung;
  Where we longed for nothin and were satisfied
  Talkin and a jokin about the world outside
  With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
  We never thought we could get very old;
  We thought we could sit forever in fun
  Though our chances really were a million to one
  As easy as it was to tell black from white
  It wasnt all that easy to tell wrong from right;
  Our choices were few and the thought never hit
  That the road we traveled would ever shatter and split
  How many a year has passed and gone
  And many a gamble has been lost and won;
  And many a road taken by many a first friend
  And each one of them Ive never seen again
  I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
  That we could sit simply in that room once again;
  Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
  Id give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
  While riding on a train goin west
  I fell asleep for to take my rest
  I dreamed a dream that made me sad
  Concerning myself and the first few friends I had