down down down down corduroy road zingara why do they speak your name whisper like a class why do you walk in empty shoes through long and lonely dusk why do you sleep with strangeness dream of bitter rage sing your song in the mirror like a bird outside a cage yea yea the land lies large unwinding freezing from the miles but colder still are the home fires the ashes of the wild down the road down you fly never a heart to stay a lost guitar in fields afar ever hell to pay strangers are eyes oh oh down down down down corduroy road down down down down down down down down corduroy road down down down down zingara why do they speak your name whisper like a cuss why do you walk in empty shoes in long and lonely dusk strangers are eyes oh oh down down down down corduroy road down down down down down down down down corduroy road down down down down