words and music by Arlo Guthrie



Loose the bonds that tie me

Let the world I live in let me

Take these chains from off my thumb

Let the world just know you've come



Everyone is thinking that there must be a way

Come closer to me a babe, and hear what I say

Lay down beside me, listen to my song

It's something other than it's right or it's wrong



Do you ever seem so happy and feel so sad?

Feel that someone that you never had