It's A Long Road To Travel Alone

It's A Long Road To Travel Alone - The Carter Family

I always thought that I'd like to roam

One day I started alone

Out in this old wide wicked world

Away from friends and home

It's a long long road to travel alone

And when the day is gone

No place to pillow my head that night

Only on a cold cold stone

I've traveled around form town to town

Now it's time that I setteled down

I've had my fill of rambling around

And now I am homeward bound

One day a letter came to me

And this is what it read

"Come home my boy to the old homestead

Your father and mother is dead "

It's a long long road to travel alone

And when the day is gone

No place to pillow my head that night

Only on a cold cold stone

It's been a long road to travel alone

I wish I had never roamed

I thought I'd soon see my mother and dad

But now I am left alone