Tom Paxton
I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
Ramblin' Boy (1964)

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It's a long and dusty road
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A hot and heavy load
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The folks I meet ain't always kind

So are bad, some are good
Some have done the best they could
Some have tried to ease my troubled mind

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  And I can't help but wonder
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  Where I'm bound, where I'm bound
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      Can't help but wonder where I'm bound

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I been wanderin' through this land
Doin' the best I can
Tryin' to find what I was meant to do

And the people that I see
Look as worried as can be
And it looks like they are wonderin' too

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Now I had a little girl one time
She had lips like cherry wine
And she loved me till her head went plumb insane

But I was too blind to see
She was driftin' away from me
And my good gal went off on the mornin' train

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And I had a buddy back home
But he started out to roam
And I hear he's out by Frisco Bay

And sometimes when I've had a few
His old voice comes a-ringin' through
And I'm goin' out to see him some old day

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Well if you see me passin' by
And you sit and you wonder why
And you wish that you were a rambler too

Nail your shoes to the kitchen floor
Lace them up and bar the door
Thank your stars for the roof that's over you

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