Well I'm walking through town as the evening comes down And it's easy to hope that you're here In my fine linen suit and my smouldering cheroot Well disposed to a night of good cheer The candles and lamps and the losers and champs Horses all covered in foam If you don't show then I just do not know If I'll wait till the cows come home I remember the day that you first came my way Yes it stays in my mind like a song I remember the night when you first caught my sight And in spite of all that's gone wrong The moon and the stars and the gentle guitars You stepped to the microphone You sang like a lark in the warm fragrant dark I could listen till the cows come home When it's raining and cold and love's losing its hold And you feel like you just want to sleep And the friends that you trusted, left you all busted And the hills that you climb are all steep Yeah your lovers and cronies have all turned out phonies Sold you a bag full of bones I'll keep waiting there still on that last final hill And I will till the cows come home Though I'm in this valley I'll fear no evil if you will walk by my side Though danger's around us, strangers all hound us Your light will still be my guide The villains and freaks with their vulgar antiques And critiques that simper and moan Oh they twist and they turn But I'm just standing firm And I will till the cows come home