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While riding on a train goin' west, I fell asleep for to take some rest.
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I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
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Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
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With half damp eyes I stared into the room,
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Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon.
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Where we together weathered many a storm,
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Laughin' and singin' 'til the early hours of the morn.
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By the old wooden stove where our hats were hung,
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Our words were told and our songs were sung.
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Where we longed for nothing and were quite satisfied
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Talkin' and jokin' about the wicked world outside.
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With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
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we never thought we could get very old.
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We thought we could sit forever in fun,
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But our chances really were a million to one.
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As easy it was to tell black from white,
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it was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
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Our choices were few and the thought never hit
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That the one road we travelled would ever shatter and split.
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How many a year has passed and gone and many a gamble has been lost and won
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And many a road taken by many a friend,
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And each one of them I'll never see again.
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I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
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that we could sit simply in that room once again,
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Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
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I'd give it all gladly