Marty Robbins - The Dreamer lyrics

When I was a young man beginnin' my teens
How well I remember the lickin's
I'd get cause I'd dream
My work never finished, barely begun
I couldn't get started till all
Of my dreamin' was done

I wouldn't shuck cotton'
I wouldn't chop wood
And Pa would whip me and say
That's for bein' no good
But I kept chasin' rainbows, finally I found
The great open range and the hills
Were my best dreamin' ground

When I left the home place our Mother did cry
She begged me to stay there
And not say goodbye
My Pa told my Mother, your tears are in vain
Your son is a dreamer and
The winds call his name

So don't try to stop him, let him move on
'Cause he won't stop his driftin'
Till all of his dreamin' is gone

Last night in a campfire a face I did see
A vision of Mother
She seemed to be callin' to me
For seventeen years now, I've drifted alone
But I wanna see Mother
Tomorrow I start driftin' home

The last hill I've climbed now
And what do I see
An old run down shack where
The ranch used to be
Then I see a tombstone and then see one more
I drifted too long from the
Old ranch house door
There's nothin' more left
Now but driftin', it seems
But I hope I can dream
Of the lickin's I'd get 'Cause I'd dream