RAMBLIN' MAN
(Kris Kristofferson)


Tony & Kris - 1958



I am just a ramblin' man
I do my livin' where I can
And any road or highway is my home

Don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Keeping just ahead of sorrow
I'm a rollin' stone

Left my home when I was ten
To see the world and learn a little
Bit about the things I didn't know

The labour crews and gandy dancers
Taught me questions without answers
But I learn less the farther on I go

Hear the sea (Hear my destiny)
Calling me (Calling me away)
Travel on, the day I die
I know that I will be alone

I have tasted love's sweet wine
And there are many women
That I know I have the right to call my own

But my life's of much too short duration
To be spent in one location
That is why I'm still a rollin' stone

Nights I've drifted on the river
Gazing at the stars so far above
In the dark that is their home

Life is like a lonely river
Driftin' on and into never
And like every star I am alone

Hear the sea (Hear my destiny)
Calling me (Calling me away)
Travel on, the day I die
I know that I will be alone

I am just a ramblin' man
I do my livin' where I can
And any road or highway is my home

Don't know where I' be tomorrow
Keeping just ahead of sorrow
I'm a rollin' stone
I'm a rollin' stone



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2019)