 And I was the only one that didn't know the words. I mean, I knew that my father had written the song, but I had never bothered to learn it. I didn't think that anybody else had learned it. And so I ran home and told my dad what had happened. So he sat me down in the backyard with a little guitar that he'd given me, taught me the chords, taught me the words, and I've been singing it for the rest of my life. As I went walking That ribbon of highway