My Old Pals

John and Lucky saw me off The whistle called the times Just six days out to the coast Just six days behind But I've seen every state since then Where my boys have gone Is known to God and four strong winds And I'm here all alone Now ten long years have somehow passed Since I've seen my hometown And times I've spent upon those streets And faint familiar sounds Still whisper gently in my ear And play upon my eyes And I had hold this memories Till one by one they die But I still belong to everyone And if my sleep allows Then I'll be running wild tonight With all of my old pals I can still hear your passing trains And wonder what they see And somewhere out my window Are the places that I might be Now I'm chasing down those pretty boys They wander through my mind Oh Maybe they'll remember me When I work off my time But I still belong to everyone And if my sleep allows Then all those boys will dance tonight With me and my old pals But I'm running every single night And every single days Lord I've tried everything I know To somehow find my way Back to that one place in time That fond memory endows To me and my old pals