[Verse 1]
When I walk the hill so high
Around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away
Though I was there just yesterday

[Verse 2]
I have played on my guitar
In coffeehouses, halls and bars
Everyone that I call friend
Knows they will not be forgot

[Verse 3]
Trains and planes and rented cars
Singers, saints and other stars
I suspect them every one
They'll never change, it's too much fun

[Bridge]
Just for now I'd like to rest
In the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there

[Verse 4]
When I stand on my own sod
It feels so good to be home, by God
The winter wind has turned my head
But I always came up warm somehow
[Verse 5]
Bottles, beads and cigarettes
And lovers that I ain't found yet
Picking with a friend till dawn
Singing all those highway songs

[Bridge]
Just for now I'd like to rest
In the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there

[Verse 1]
When I walk the hill so high
Around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away
Though I was there just yesterday

[Verse 6]
I would travel all my life
If loneliness was not the price
While heading north across that line's
The only time I'm flying