Crossroads Lyrics

Crossroads lyrics

When first I did appear upon this native soil

 All up and down this country at labor I did toil

 I slumbered in the moonlight and I rose with the sun

 I rambled through the canyons where the cold rivers run 

 

 When first I did come down where the land meets the sea

 The people said Who are you and what would your name be

 I said I have no home and I am no man's son 

 'Twas inland I was born and from inland that I come 

 

 In the good land I was young and I was strong

 No one dared to call me son

 Happy just to see my day's work done

 See my day's work done 

 

 So I swung an axe as a timberjack

 And I worked the Quebec mines

 And on the golden prairie I rode the big combines

 I sailed the maritime waters of many a seaport town

 Built the highways and the byways to the western salmon grounds 

 

 I've gazed upon the good times I've seen the bad times too

 Felt many a cold and bitter wind and many a mornin' dew

 I've watched the country growin' like a fair and mighty thing

 And on the still of a summer night I've heard the mountains ring 

 

 In the good land I was young and I was strong

 No one dared to call me son

 Happy just to see my day's work done

 See my day's work done 

 

 But now the seeds are planted and the gates are open wide

 The old ways are forgotten there's no place left to hide

 And the legacy I'm leavin' you is not very hard to find

 You'll see it all around you at this crossroads of time

 In the sweet soil it's a-growin' At the crossroads of time