Get out of the way fat man you got something to do   Go fill up your hands till they're shining back up at you   Well you gotta get out while there's gold in the air   It's falling like water, always coming down from those hills, no, no, no      Go West young man   Earn a dollar a day that's what your family said   And you're rollin' the days right on into the night   At the head of the line always goin' way, way, way, way, way out of sight   Go West young man, like your family said      All along the wagons, all along the dusty trail   Seventeen years not over a day like children in the wild   Your mama's milk still wet on your face   And no one wants to pray for your safe journey home      Out beyond the desert, across the mountains by the fall   Servants who leave their masters house all are walking all the way   The golden fields that beckoned you, you   They're darkened by the days, days      Go West young man, like your family said   Go West young man   Ah well if you knew then, just what you know today   Yes you'd be back where you started a happier man   And leave all the glory to all of those who have remained      So go West young man   Go West young man, like your family said, oh no      Go West young man   Go West young man, like your family said, oh no