The Dreamer Lyrics - All Around Cowboy/everything I've Always Wanted - Marty Robbins

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