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