Bob Dylan Ballad for a Friend Letra

Sad i'm sittin' on the railroad track,

watchin' that old smokestack.

train is a-leavin' bit it won't be back.

Years ago we hung around,

watchin' trains roll through the town.

now that train is a-graveyard bound.

Where we go up in that north country,

lakes and streams and mines so free,

i had no better friend than he.

Something happened to him that day,

i thought i heard a stranger say,

i hung my head and stole away.

A diesel truck was rollin' slow,

pullin' down a heavy load.

it left him on a utah road.

They carried him back to his home town,

his mother cried, his sister moaned,

listin' to them church bells tone.