The Rebel

Won't you tell me about the rebel
Was he a noble kind of fellow
Or was he wrong
Is it true what they say about
The day he went away to start a war
Won't you tell me what you seen
Now was he anything like me
Or was he more
Was he half of what I think
Or twice as much as I believe I thought he was
He said, sorry you didn't know him
It's just the saddest thing to me
Son, your father was all that
Any rolling stone could ever be
There are several different things
About the many ways he often was
About how he hever would back down
Man even the law above the law
They say this much is true
that any man who ever knew him
Knew his heart
wore it right there on his sleeve
and just before he'd go to leave he'd put it on
He said, sorry you didn't know him
It's just the saddest thing to me
Son, your father was all that
Any rolling stone could ever be
He... would ever be... He
There's just one more thing that I'll say before
We go our separate ways back to our worlds
Was forever just a phrase or was
The rebel just afraid of who he was
Did he ever say my name
Or tell ya that I had his face
His same mug
That I'm a drifter just the same
Who walked away from anyone I ever loved
He said, sorry you didn't know him
It's just the saddest thing to me
Son, your father all that
Any rolling stone could ever be