Snake of light above me keep my feet upon the path

Keep my footsteps steady strong and hide my heart from wrath

Save a sack of grain for the horse for when it snows

And send word to my baby that I walk a broken road



Snake of light above me guide me home to sleep

Footsteps lost in darkness and promises to keep

If my busking heart should play me like a fiddle poorly bowed

Then send word to my baby that I walk a broken road



If the sun and moon collide

If the road should leave my feet

Oh my thirst be satisfied

Oh the reaper I will cheat

Oh send word to my baby that I walk a broken road



Keep the leering faces from the roadside as I pass

Wash me with the sweetest dew that grows upon the grass

Keep my spine straight as fire and fear within me stowed

And send word to my baby that I walk a broken road



If the sun and moon collide

If the fates should lead me home

Oh my thirst be satisfied

I'll settle down nomore to roam

Oh send word to my baby that I walk a broken road