i ve been up and i ve been down i ve worked the fields i ve plowed the ground i ve taken strain and pressure till i thought i might explode now i yearn for childhood days of model planes and lemonade when the day stretched out before me like a long long texas road yes a long long texas road bout a million miles or so when you re just a child there ain t no time but now must have left that long old road seven hundred years ago and i d find it once again if i knew how i ve worked in city factories their plastic dirt still clings to me monotory near killed me lord it was a heavy load now i dream of comic books and horny toads and fishin hooks when the day stretched out before me like a long long texas road yes a long long texas road so i watch the children play and dream my dreams of yesterday don t tell them to be grateful i m sure that they ve been told if i knew then what i know now that would have messed it up somehow when the day stretched out before me like a long long texas road yes a long long texas road 