I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my days

I'll say goodbye to Colorado
Where I was born and partly raised.


Your mother says I'm a stranger
My face you'll never see no more
But there's one promise, darling:

I'll see you on God's golden shore.

Through this open world I'm about to trouble

Through ice and snows, sleet and rain
I'm about to ride that morning railroad
Perhaps I'll die on that train.


I'm going back to Colorado
The place that I started from

If I had known how bad you'd treat me honey
I never would have come.