I've been up and I've been down I've worked the fields I've plowed the ground I've taken strain and pressure Till I thought I might explode Now I yearn for childhood days Of model planes and lemonade When the day stretched out before me Like a long, long Texas road Yes, a long, long Texas road 'Bout a million miles or so When you're just a child there ain't no time but now Must have left that long old road seven hundred years ago And I'd find it once again if I knew how I've worked in city factories Their plastic dirt still clings to me Monitory near killed me Lord, it was a heavy load Now I dream of comic books And horny toads and fishin' hooks When the day stretched out before me Like a long, long Texas road Yes, a long, long Texas road So I watch the children play And dream my dreams of yesterday Don't tell them to be grateful I'm sure that they've been told If I knew then what I know now that Would have messed it up somehow When the day stretched out before me Like a long long Texas road Yes, a long long Texas road