san eyed joe

let me tell you about a story

about a man named joe

his family they was hungry

so he said i'm gonna go

go up in the mountains

start looking for some gold

so he started out one morning

the wind was getting cold

the air was nearly freezing

it was ten degrees below

sad eyed joe

why did you go

your family's gonna miss you

they want you back at home

think about the winter

think about the snow

think about the things that you're gonna leave behind

when your looking for the gold dust that you're never gonna find

he wakes up every morning

after only five hours sleep

chewing on a tasteless piece of gristly worn out meat

his coffee runout weeks ago he won't admit defeat

panning on the water searching with his hands

looking for the yellow dust but all he find is sand

they searched fro him every day for one whole solid week

they found him lying frozen at the bottom of the creek

a bag of yellow gold dust between his icy feet

his collar it was turned up frozen to his jaw

sad eyed joe looked sadder than he ever looked before