Marty Robbins - The Dreamer Lyrics
When I was a young man beginnin' my teensHow well I remember the lickin's I'd get cause I'd dreamMy work never finished, barely begunI couldn't get started till all of my dreamin' was doneI wouldn't shuck cotton', I wouldn't chop woodAnd Pa would whip me and say that's for bein' no goodBut I kept chasin' rainbows, finally I foundThe great open range and the hills were my best dreamin' groundWhen I left the home place our Mother did cryShe begged me to stay there and not say goodbyeMy Pa told my Mother, your tears are in vainYour son is a dreamer and the winds call his nameSo don't try to stop him, let him move on'Cause he won't stop his driftin'Till all of his dreamin' is goneLast night in a campfire a face I did seeA vision of Mother, she seemed to be callin' to meFor seventeen years now, I've drifted aloneBut I wanna see Mother, tomorrow I start driftin' homeThe last hill I've climbed now, and what do I seeAn old run down shack where the ranch used to beThen I see a tombstone and then see one moreI drifted too long from the old ranch house doorThere's nothin' more left now but driftin', it seemsBut I hope I can dream of the lickin's I'd get'Cause I'd dream
