Ballad for a Friend lyrics

Sad I’m a-sittin’ on the railroad track

Watchin’ that old smokestack

Train is a-leavin’ but it won’t be back

Years ago we hung around

Watchin’ trains roll through the town

Now that train is a-graveyard bound

Where we go up in that North Country

Lakes and streams and mines so free

I had no better friend than he

Something happened to him that day

I thought I heard a stranger say

I hung my head and stole away

A diesel truck was rollin’ slow

Pullin’ down a heavy load

It left him on a Utah road

They carried him back to his home town

His mother cried, his sister moaned

Listenin’ to them church bells tone