One time i shook hands with a pirate, He gave me a map to all his gold After a lifetime i finally found it, By then a was too old to bring it home It was a long way down. On a snowy night in late december, I set out to find some mistletoe She had promised me all kinds of kisses, None of them were worth the bones i broke It was a long way down Long way to fall to have nobobdy catch you Long way to call to have nobody answer Long walk home if you don't know the mountain roads One night while playin' in a graveyard Somebody's hand reached up and grabbed my leg It was my dearly departed grandpa He said "i bet you thought that i was dead, I was just a long way down" And on the night before the day that i got married An old man said "hey listen to me son, Make sure you wanna hold that girl forever Cause once you say i do you gotta do it till it's done And it's a long way down" Long way to fall to have nobobdy catch you Long way to call to have nobody answer Long walk home if you don't know the mountain roads It's a long fall down to earth from heaven A long walk back to there from hell And sometime the difference between them is hard to tell One time I met a tree out in the forest I said "Tree i wanna be as big as you" He said "Boy i wish you never had've found me, Cause that means that lumberjack can find me too And it's a long way down"