Jamie's gone away   to cross the widest plain   Find some undiscovered kings and princes   Jamie's jumped the train   to live bravely for a day   Ride the rails in some lost romances   Infamous hobos crouch in the car   Singing along in the night   old pioneers   looking for the lost frontier   under the dark western sky   and the night wore on   More people jumped the train   at Grass Valley the next day   Pulled out so fast they nearly lost their hold   Across the snow fields   And over ravines   Yellow skies of snowfall   the sun winks and dreams      ::Chorus::   The mountains are marching   the deserts rolling home   It's a long ways away from a place we all know   I'll give you my hand   We'll roll like a stone   Show me the places the wild birds know      and the night wore on   Jamie sits and he knows   the place where we go   is oh, so much farther   than old Mexico   If I'm alone   I'd rather be here than home   I like to have a song to sing   the night wore on      Jamie's gone away   to catch the last of the trains   and it's a long journey south   Jamie jumped the train   when the world was dark and strange   and a smile played the corners of his mouth      the night wore on