On The Road Lyrics - John Denver

This song was first released on the Back Home Again album. It is the only album it has been released on. 

Back in 1958 we drove an old V8 and when it'd gone a hundred thou' we got out and pushed it a mile 

We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did 

We were just on the road 

Headin' down from Canada on a gravel road a mile from Montana 

Then my Daddy read a sign and took us in the wrong direction 

I asked my Daddy where are we goin', he said we'll just follow 

Our nose, so I looked out the window and dreamed I was a cowboy 

We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did 

We were just on the road 

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Go home 

We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did 

We were just on the road 

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We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did 

We were just a ridin' on 

We were just a ridin' on the road 

Words and Music by Carl Franzen