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Drifter’s Lament

by Alex McMurray Velvety Pod Music (BMI)

woke up this morning

and i lost my only friend

and now i’m on the road alone

an out front drifter and i’ll be until the end

no good idea where i’m going

 

we went down many a highway

spent some years in town

worked for many years for john mcghee

lived our life together

even when we were apart

it all came back again so easily

 

so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

i’ll see you when i can

take flight, take flight, take flight, take flight

over to that other land

 

when there was trouble

and there was trouble all the time you said

i ain’t gonna go back to pretend

when you got trouble you got to face it like a man

you was more than a man up to the end

 

and when the darkness put me on my knees

you knew what i was thinking of

you were my mountain you were my Hercules

when they used to hate our kind of love

 

so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

i’ll see you when i can

take flight, take flight, take flight, take flight

over to that other land

 

when the years go sprawling

go falling down the stairs

i know i’ll dream you now and then

when you come a calling

won’t be no judgment there

just hold my hand once again

 

a bird came up this morning

said son where is your heart?

i left it in that town just back a ways

i’m an out front drifter

and i’ve always played that part

looks like i’ll be drifting all my days

 

so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

i’ll see you when i can

take flight, take flight, take flight, take flight

over to that other land