[ti:It's A Long Road To Travel Alone] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:Volume Two 1935-1941] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It's A Long Road To Travel Alone - The Carter Family [00:04.83]I always thought that I'd like to roam [00:09.38]One day I started alone [00:13.88]Out in this old wide wicked world [00:18.83]Away from friends and home [00:23.26]It's a long long road to travel alone [00:28.14]And when the day is gone [00:32.26]No place to pillow my head that night [00:37.51]Only on a cold cold stone [00:59.81]I've traveled around form town to town [01:04.22]Now it's time that I setteled down [01:08.70]I've had my fill of rambling around [01:13.39]And now I am homeward bound [01:19.10]One day a letter came to me [01:23.61]And this is what it read [01:28.21]"Come home my boy to the old homestead [01:32.99]Your father and mother is dead" [01:37.24]It's a long long road to travel alone [01:42.10]And when the day is gone [01:46.27]No place to pillow my head that night [01:51.15]Only on a cold cold stone [02:14.35]It's been a long road to travel alone [02:19.13]I wish I had never roamed [02:23.55]I thought I'd soon see my mother and dad [02:28.13]But now I am left alone