[00:00.00]Lyrics:Robbie Robertson Music:Robbie Robertson[00:30.06]Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket,[00:33.90]Never let it slip away.[00:38.01]Always be a man, not a boy gone astray.[00:47.31]When ya get half cra-zy from the August heat[00:52.74]Or on a frozen, rotted road[00:55.92]With no one to complain to about your achin' feet.[01:01.29](Chorus:)[01:01.98]You're gonna walk that endless highway,[01:03.81]Walk that high-way till you die.[01:22.80]All you children goin' my way,[01:23.37]Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye.[01:29.85]When I see a detour up ahead,[01:32.97]Well, I leave it far behind,[01:34.11]Who knows what you're apt to find there.[01:45.09]With the cost of livin, and the price of dyin',[01:46.95]Well it look like t'me this time I wont be buyin'[01:59.01](Chorus)[03:28.50]When they get a scapegoat by the throat,[03:31.80]it's hard labour and cold beans.[03:36.69]If ya get away real quick,[03:38.22]You'll be eatin from the poison peanut machine.[03:43.71]Well, I sing by night, wander by day.[03:51.96]I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.[03:57.36](Chorus)