put the tv on the lawn with the bicycles and boots take your wedding dress to pawn take my pistol and my suit sell the house sell the car take the kids to jacksonville give them a kiss for the father they ll miss tell them that i love them still i remember long ago in that brown catskill school snow oh the life we dreamt of way back then hey there dorothy stop your crying i ll put your favorite record on hey there dorothy wheres your smile just one more kiss before i m gone sell the house sell the car take the kids to jacksonville give them a kiss for the father they ll miss tell them that i love them still and always will and always will to chain me to the earth it would take a length of chain twenty five thousand miles long to wash me away it would take a length of rain twenty five million mornings long to chain me to the earth it would take a length of chain twenty five thousand miles long i have always been and i will see no end twenty five million mornings long and thats a long length of chain and thats a long time to wait  to move me with hate it would take an army greater than 25 million soldiers strong to move me with love it would take the birds above oh the singing of a song and that s a long length of chain and that s a long time to wait to chain me to the earth it would take a length of chain twenty five thousand miles long i will always be like the ever changing sea 25 million years to come and that s a long length of chain and that s a long length of chain