I am just a ramblin’ man
I do my living 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 rolling stone
I left my home when I was ten
To try to see the world and learn
A little bit about the things I didn’t know
Labor crews and gandy dancers
Told me questions without answers
I learn less the further on I go
*Chorus
Hear the sea, calling me
Travel on, the day I die
Know that I will be alone
I have tasted love’s sweet wine
And there are many women
That I knew I have the right to call my own
But my life’s much too short duration
To be spent in one location
And I’ll always be a rolling stone
Nights I’ve drifted on the river
Gazing at the stars so far
Above the dark that is their own
Life is like a lonely river
Drifting on and into never
And like every star I’m alone
**Repeat chorus
**Repeat first verse
Words & Music by Kris Kristofferson (1957) c. Jody Ray Publishing, Inc. (BMI) All Rights Reserved