INTRO: G5 B5 E5

         G5     B5         E5
When the wagons leave the city
         A5                  F5
for the forest, and further on
         G5    B5      E5
Painted wagons of the morning
       A5                    C5
dusty roads where they have gone
          G5        B5           E5
Sometimes travelling through the darkness
        A5             F5
met the summer coming home
        G5   B5      E5
Fallen faces by the wayside
          C5        ?         G5     B5
Looked as if they might have known

      E5         B5
O the sun was in their eyes
      E5            B5
and the desert that dries
       C5       G5
In the country towns
          A5        E5      B5 C5
where the laughter sounds

      G5      B5       E5
O the dancing and the singing
      A5               F5
O the music when they played
      G5    B5         E5
O the fires that they started
      A5             C5
O the girls with no regret
      G5                B5
Sometimes they found it
               E5
Sometimes they kept it
      A5              F5
Often lost it on the way
            G5    B5     E5
Fought each other to possess it
         C5       ?        G5   B5
Sometimes died in sight of day

      E5         B5
O the sun was in their eyes
      E5            B5
and the desert that dries
       C5       G5
In the country towns
          A5        E5      B5 C5
where the laughter sounds

OUTRO: G5 B5 E5 A5 F5 G5 B5
E5 C5 ? G5