He was just a country kid, trying to find his waynLiving in a world, that was full of yesterdaynHe heard a different drum, in the heat of the sunnHe would choose how to live, before the day was donennJumping from the train, he was running to be freenTo a cabin by the lake, that was hidden in the treesnWhile the others went to war, and fell like autumn leavesnFor the loss of love, he'd take some time to grievennLet the woods grow tall around himnLet the sun and rain surround himnLet his music keep on sounding let him bennSnow faded into spring, many times for the kingnIn his palace of evergreen he would hide there never seennBut then one day we found him as a humble old mannThey offered him a pension but he wouldn't take a handnnLet the woods grow tall around himnLet the sun and rain surround himnLet his music keep on sounding let him bennJust let him be alonenWalking in the full moonnLet him be alonenHe's already homennThe old cabin's gone, it burned to the groundnThey go looking still to find him but he doesn't make a soundn60 years of walking down, this long road alonenHe's earned the right to stay and choose how to gonnLet the woods grow tall around himnLet the sun and rain surround himnLet his music keep on sounding let him bennHis world surrounds himnThe sun and rain's all around himnHis music keeps on sounding let him benJust let him bennLet him benJust let him be