Lyrics:

I always thought that I'd like to roam
One day I started alone
Out in this old wide wicked world
Away from friends and home

It's a long, hard road to travel alone
And when the day is gone
No place to pillow my head for the night
Only on a cold, cold stone

I've traveled around form town to town
Now it's time that I setteled down
I've had my fill of rambling around
And now I am homeward bound

One day a letter came to me
And this is what it read
'Come home my boy to the old homestead
Your father and mother is dead.'

It's a long, hard road to travel alone
And when the day is gone
No place to pillow my head for the night
Only on a cold, cold stone

It's been a long road to travel alone
I wish I had never roamed
I thought I'd soon see my mother and dad
But now I am left alone.