To be rich is to still remember To treasure your first dime To have a chance to say farewell Story of your life Time of solitude and strife Freedom of an open road Hoping many miles to go Promises to keep Countless gold fields to reap To be rich is to seek To relive the memory Far off lands, quests of old Self respect, true grit Never cared what a fortune might buy To seek is to be rich Story of your life Time of solitude and strife Freedom of the northern road Hoping many miles to go Promises to keep Countless gold fields to reap To be rich is to seek To relive the memory All the strangers on your path Crossroads, the letters from home The cooling embers of a Yuletide hearth All the sounds of wilderness The truth in which you roamed Now your lost Rosebud has brought you back home Story of your life Time of solitude and strife Freedom of the northern road Hoping many miles to go Promises to keep Countless gold fields to reap To be rich is to seek To relive the memory