When the wagons leave the city For the forest and further on Painted wagons of the morning Dusty roads where they have gone Sometimes travelin' through the darkness Met the summer comin' home Fallen faces by the wayside Look as if they might have known All the sun was in their eye And the desert that's dry In the country town Where the laughter sound Oh the dancing and the singing Oh the music when they play Oh the fire that they started All the girls with no regret Sometimes they found it Sometimes they kept it Often lost it along the way Fought each other to posses it Sometimes die in sight of day Oh the sun was in their eye And the desert that's dry In the country town