(I capo up two frets and play in Am.)
He was young and old all rolled into one.
Too much! Some said for youth.
No wiser man nor bigger fool
Has lived than Everett Ruess.
It started off as adventure bright;
A bit of an artist's quest.
But what he saw struck a resonant chord
Deep in Everett's breast.
Chorus: Everett you're gettin' wilder every day.
While others are being fenced and tamed
You always get away.
It dragged him on, soon out of control.
He never, ever ran or hid.
One in a million souls on Earth
Could live as much as he did.
Break
I guess he's gone from us by now
Just like a short lived desert rose.
He lived a dream of life on the loose.
Where he went, well nobody knows.
He was young and old all rolled into one.
Too much! Some said for youth.
No wiser man nor bigger fool
Has lived than Everett Ruess.
Chorus
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