from western mountains to easter sea,
the open road has called to me
and ever will I follow.
Though roundabout on weary ways
I've squandered many wasteful days
I sing now glad and happy lays
about the path I take tomorrow.
Though dark has been my every road
and long and harsh the guiding goad
now free am I, and my abode
I no more from the Fates must borrow.
Someday, though, there'll come a time
when nature's only but vile crime
shall take this freedom fond of mine
and turn it into sorrow.
But till that time I e'er will be
from western mountains to eastern sea
wandering fairly, wandering free
until the passing of the morrow.
to the land of the dreamers of dreams.
You and I could be found there, just walking alone
but there were millions of others, it seems.
I saw you and asked you if you'd come along
'cross the paths the moon lays on the sea.
You took my hand and laughed, then you smiled my way
and you went from there onward with me.
We wandered in lands where there's never no night
in the Forests of eternal Day.
By streams of pleasure, across plains of delight
on the enchanted childhood way.
As we walked together we talked and we laughed
as we rode on a white shining mare.
We swam the oceans and we flew through the skies
and we came to love each other there.
But there came a time many years down the road
that we could go back there no more!
The pathway was lost, and the moon's silver gleam
never led from this sea to that shore.
Years come and go and we have grown old
and children no longer are we.
But one thing's for certain, the love we still share
proves that Other Land's real still to me.
so long, so long ago-
when evening fell and came along
with all the flaming stars in tow;
And somehow two young children found
a place they now no longer know.
The moon was shining full and bright
and it that night drove them to sleep:
and while they slept so far apart
the moon did start upon the deep
to form a silver path away
to lands of neverending day.
It was that night they found in sleep
the silver path across the deep
that beckoned to them both somehow...
And though they knew each other not
their single shared o'erwhelming thought
was "let us walk together now!"
So hand in hand they travelled on
to lands where no one else has gone;
invited guests of Fate and Destiny!
A dark skinned boy both brave and true
and a girl with eyes a sweet sea-blue
with a voice as lovely as could be.
They travelled on together there
and saw the things they wished to see.
For her, he was a brave white knight
and a stately queen for him was she!
And still they travelled hand in hand
throughout that land, that place so fair
where dreams come true! They wandered on
and came to love each other there.
while dreams were deep and the moon was bright:
and often there the two would meet
on any given summer night.
But there came a time beyond recall
when dreams became as leaves in fall
and fluttered off to field and fen.
The two of them had older grown,
and all those lands they once had known
would never ever come again.
But still they remembered being there;
his tangled hair, hers curling free!
Those sapphire eyes he loved to see!
His dark and rugged features bare!
The hands he held! Her face so fair!
They came always back to he and she.
And thus they oft tried going back
by searching for that magic track
but never did it come again to sight.
Though that land would never again be seen
she often thought about her silver knight
and he never did forget his faerie queen!
One day, a fateful meeting came;
a young man and a lovely lass.
They traded now their dreams for fame
and their crayons for a college class.
So much time had since then passed,
but finally, the time was right!
But when we met we knew at last,
you were my queen, and I, your knight!
