And they didn't know why she was cryin' on a Beautiful day They didn't ask her He held her hair in morning light, And then he watched her cry Now come Along the trail of tears, by dawn she was gone Now the night has come into lonesome town Where the red signs have lost their glow And the folk has gone on home She hides away by the lane, where no man drives on Come out, come out and let the night cry with you too Come out, come out and let the night cry with you too It's dark and there is night time and I call it mine Now come along the trail of tears