Emmylou Harris - One Paper Kid

Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb

Tomorrow came too fast, but he didn't mind

The distance was short, so light it again

Don't take no time to get where I am

The one paper kid wasn't really so mean

Just a little bit scared and a little bit green

And he'd heard of a place where it's legal to dream

So he sat with his coffee in a blue Texas wind

And wrote on a rock:

"The one paper kid, he's rolling again"

Driver was drunk or he just didn't see

The future is there, it'll happen to me

And all the time that he wasted was his once again

It never takes too long to go where you've been

Broken hearts scattered all over the past

Old bad memories trying to last

Whiskey and women and growing up fast

Fussing and loving and itching like grass

Hell, the one paper kid wasn't really so mean

Just a little bit weird 'cause the times were so lean

Now he's gone to a place where it's legal to dream

No Camels, no coffee and no cold morning winds

It's wrote on a rock:

"The one paper kid, he's rolling again"

The one paper kid, he's rolling again

• Artist:Emmylou Harris
• Album:rter Moon in a Ten Cent Town