This is a different thread entirely to me Spud and you're getting some good responses. For me, there are probably two that fit. For many years, the first choice would be "Many a Mile" by Patrick Sky:

MANY A MILE
(Patrick Sky)

I've damn near walked this world around
Another city, another town
Another place, to say goodbye
Another girl, to sit and cry.
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone

Well there was one, who knew me best
You know she gave my poor heart rest
She was my world, my heart, my dear
And now she's gone to God know where
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone

I seen your towns, they're all the same
The only difference is in a name
And the only home I ever knowed
Was a suitcase and the open road
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone

So fill the glasses up to the brim
But thru my glass, the world looks dim
But outside I know there's light somewhere
Maybe my rambling will take me there
And it's many a mile I have spent on this road
It's many a mile I have gone
And it's many a mile I have spent all alone
And it's many a mile I will go.

(This is slightly different than the DT which gives Buffy's version)

The other song which continues to haunt me is a Dylan song, basically ripped from the trad "Lord Franklin." Bob did that a lot, but I still prefer Bob's version:

Bob Dylan's Dream

While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

Damn near can't sing this one at all anymore.

Spaw