Dark down the road
Into the night unknown
Lights in the valley howling in the trees
Dark down the road

Black haired lady rides the silver spoon
She flies tonight clouds cross the moon
Boy takes her hand doesn’t understand
He won’t be coming home anytime soon

Cold wind rakes my cheek
Little boys and girls running up and down the street
Man in the shadows got a bag full of tricks
Turns the Junky into ashes
blowin’ across the bricks

Be kind to everyone
You can be the sun
We’re just blind men on the run

That boy came home
Got a medal for his part
Nobody could see ya
The bullet buried in his heart
That boy came home his rifle gone
He was the hero of his town
But nobody could see ya
The chamber with the hidden round

That boy came home
To the red white and blue
Everybody spoke his name
When that boy came home

When that boy came home
When that boy came home
Nobody could see
That boys reality

Nobody asked about the past
They thought it better left unsaid
His girl she didn’t ask him
about those dreams
Every night painted in red

In a Kansas field the harvest gone
The wind blew a gentle song
Mid-morning in that Kansas field
He faced the pain that he could not heal

Down along the river she and I would run
Cool watering hole hot summer sun
In the fall chasing geese
and other wild things
Down along the river we would run

Dog gone to heaven god bless my friend
Gone a love hard to comprehend
She’d wait all day to see me again
Now I see her round every bend
Dog gone to heaven god bless my friend
God bless my sweet friend
God bless my friend

Loved that dog ten years long
Couple months ago she passed along
On our street she’s still a household name
They loved that dog ten years long

Riverbanks and hay fields
scaring up the black crow
Running in the tall grass
peaceful waters flow
Bathing there in the river sun’s afterglow
Her big brown eyes
and her sweet trusting soul