Ballad For A Friend - Bob Dylan

Watching’that old smokestack

Train is a-leavin’but it won’t be back

Years ago we hang around

Watching’trains roll through the town

Now that train is a-graveyard bound

Where we go up in that North Country

Lakes and streams and mines so free

I had no better friend than he

Something happened to him that day

I thought I heard a stranger say

I hung my head and stole away

A diesel truck was headin’down

Carryin' up a heavy load

Left him on a Utah road

They carried him back to his hometown

His mother cried, his sister moaned

Listening’to them church bells tone

A diesel truck was rollin' slow

Pullin' down a heavy load

It left him on a Utah road

I-I sung the last verse for ya because I missed the words the first time I sung them about the truck