A tumbleweed is tapping Tapping morse code A desolate desert Bares a heavy load And there's a secret river Or so I have been told I tell to you The tales of the road When I left my family Out there on the plains The dust had just rolled in From the lack of rain Seventy years later I still can't find my home I tell to you The tales of the road I had a girl when I was young I been drinkin' about her since No others have matched her beauty They have all seemed so dense So I sleep alone now every night Just shiverin' from the cold I tell to you The tales of the road I've had the same old pair of shoes Since '45 The last time that I smiled Was when disco died I layed this here pavement That field there I sowed I tell to you The tales of the road
