Well I didn't see

much future

when I left the

Christian brothers

school

So I waved it goodbye

with a wistful smile

And I left the

girls of Tuam

And sometimes

when I'm reminiscing

I see the prefabs and

my old friends

And I know that they'll

be changed or gone

By the time I

get home again

And I wish I was

on that N-seventeen

Yes I wish I was

on that N-seventeen

Travelling with just my

thoughts and dreams

Well the old fella

led me to Shannon

Was the last time

I travelled that road

And as I turned

left at Claregalway

I could feel a lump

in my throat

As I pictured the

thousands of times

that I travelled that

well worn track

And I know that things

would be different

If I ever decide

to go back

And I wish I was

on that N-seventeen

Yes I wish I was

on that N-seventeen

Travelling with just my

thoughts and dreams

Now as I tumble

down highways

Or filthy

overcrowded trains

There's no one

to talk to in transit

So I sit there and

daydream in vain

And behind all these

muddled up problems

Of living on

a foreign soil

I can still see the twists

and turns on the road

From the square to

the town of the tribes

And I wish I was

on that N-seventeen

Yes I wish I was

on that N-seventeen

Travelling with just my

thoughts and dreams

Just travelling with

my thoughts

and dreams