Solitary Road

I'd be glad to tell you the story

About a solitary road

You can't take nobody with you

And you ain't coming back if you go

It's a highway teeming with blackjack

On every corner young Jezebels

Well they say it can lead to salvation

But you won't be able to tell

Cause it's a solitary road

I was only a wanderer

A lonely child of circumstance

When I heard that nightingale calling me

And he flew right into my hands

Well he told me they'd rise up against me

As it turned out this was the case

I saw jackals roaming the valleys

Grifters all over the place

See it's a solitary road

A kingdom lay high on the mountain

I could see it through rain and snow

Many had fallen in fields beside me

As I cross over every road

When I reached those gates of the city

I was trembling, I have to confess

Eyes of judgment lay heavy upon me

The red sun hung low in the West

On the solitary road