Standard (EADGBE)

He is down by the riverside

Late one night

He's tryin' to count the stars

In each of the signs

All alone by the riverside

And time passes by

Gathering thoughts of the past

And maybe he'll cry

 He's a dreamer

 And he's fightin' for his life

 He's tryin' to understand

 He's a dreamer

 But he wants to carry on

 Yet I know he's a lonely man

So they say he's a madman

And he don't understand

But I know that he's tryin' hard

To act like a man

All those years he has suffered, my friends

All those years of pain

But I don't think he knows for sure

If those years were in vain