Verse 1:

(Sometimes) I feel like a lonesome tumbleweed
Rolling across an open plain —  
I feel like something she no longer needs
I feel my life drifting away —  
Just drifting away —  

Verse 2:

And I feel like a broken wagon wheel
When I can't jump on a slow movin' train
And now I know how a coyote feels
When I'm out howlin' just to ease the pain —
Since she went away —

Chorus:

So Lord I feel like rollin'
Rollin' along —
And keep your winds a blowin'
'Till my natural days are gone,
'Till my natural days are gone —  

'Feel like a lonesome tumbleweed
Always turnin'end over end —
'Cause once you pull all your roots free
You become a slave to the wind,
I've been a slave to the wind —  

[repeat chorus]