Standard (EADGBE)

Nobody's sowing no wild oats around here

 And I'm growing roses and blowing my wildest years

I do work in the field, I do play in the field

 And when it comes down to rest, I roll up my sleeves

 And bury my heart in my chest

 Like a night of hard thinking and mountain to climb

 All our thoughts will out live us anyway

 Before our time

Well I didn't make the bed where I lie

But I know that somebody did

And I didn't make myself fall into love

I'm only somebody's kid

And I'm a dreamer without a dream

A drifter with no place to be

And yes Lord I believe in you

But oh Lord believe in me

I came in like a lamb and I left like a lion

And I seen what an ass I can be

But I looked like a giant who could spy the whole forest

But couldn't get through all the trees

 Well you've got my love Now go on, let me be

 It's my love that you need darlin'

 You don't need me

Well I don't want to get burned

I just want to shake hands with the fire

Cause old friends are better

Than two Conley lovers for hire

And I try to find a reason

That reason has left me so soon

A black bird in a coal black night

Singing and missing the moon

Now come back to me come back that moment of question

When roses were nothing but seeds

Cause flowers they grow old and die on the same branch and the same tree

Well you've got my love,

Now go on, let me be

It's my love that you need darlin'

You don't need me