Forty years I've been gone I served my time it's been so long I took a life I know it was wrong I served my time lord knows I'm going home Shackled to a ball and chain I worked in the snow I worked in the rain I laid the tracks never rode the train Forty years of suffering forty years of pain I had a wife and a little queen I've had a son I've never seen All I have left now it seems Is a broken heart and broken dreams Now I'm old, I've done my time Ain't nothin left but to sit and pine Nobody here even knows my name I have no one but myself to blame