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Intro

 When the wagons leave the city

 for the forest, and further on

 Painted wagons of the morning

 dusty roads where they have gone

 Sometimes travelling through the darkness

 met the summer coming home

 Fallen faces by the wayside

 Looked as if they might have known

 O the sun was in their eyes

 and the desert that dries

 In the country towns

 where the laughter sounds

 O the dancing and the singing

 O the music when they played

 O the fires that they started

 O the girls with no regret

 Sometimes they found it

 Sometimes they kept it

 Often lost it on the way

 Fought each other to possess it

 Sometimes died in sight of day

 O the sun was in their eyes

 and the desert that dries

 In the country towns

 where the laughter sounds

Outro