I’m a rollin’ stone, all alone and lost
  For a life of sin I have paid the cost
  When I pass by all the people say
  Just another guy on the lost highway
  
  Just a deck of cards, and a jug of wine
  And a woman’s lies make a life like mine
  Oh, the day we met, I went astray
  I started rollin’ down that lost highway
  
  I was just a lad, nearly twenty-two
  Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
  And now I’m lost, too late to pray
  Lord, I’ve paid the cost on the lost highway
  
  Now, boys, don’t start, your ramblin’ around
  On this road of sin, or you’re sorrow bound
  Take my advice, or you’ll curse the day
  You started rollin’ down that lost highway