Traditional
I was born for roaming
Guess I always will
I wonder if it's greener
On the far side of that hill
Hey Dan look down yonder
There's earth and green and sky.
I know we could get on down there
In the battin' of an eye
And further west's an ocean
A miner told me so,
And the sun it shines so brightly
It scares off winter snow
But Dan sometimes I'm tiered
Sometimes I'm lonesome too
Sometimes I see a farmer
Walking slow when day is through
And I know he's got a woman
waitin' supper everyday
and I curse this wanderin' feelin'
that stole my life away.
Yes I was born for raomin
guess I always will
I wonder if it's greener
on the far side of that hill
Yes, I wonder if it's greener
on the far side of that hill.
I wished I knew the reason
God does the way he does
And why he keeps me moving
from a dream that never even was
2 comments:
Did you write this?
I had somebody else ask me that. I would love to lie and say oh yes it is just one of my idle musings that I have from time to time. But no, it is a folk tune that I know from when I was little boy.
I know it as done by a group called the Limeliters. They were a folk group that came around the time of Peter Paul and Mary and the Smothers Brothers. (60's) My dad really liked them. I guess I really like them to. I could put a link to the tune if you would like. It is a quiet kind of pieceful ballad. The guy's voice, Glenn Yarborough's is phenominal.
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