The Young Man From Elsewhere

He arrived by bus from the big World out there And today he left on the morning bus the man from nowhere Three days in the country town for him a long enough stay The dark handsome young stranger with few words to say He slept for three nights in a single room in the pub and now he is gone And life in the country town as usual goes on Dark skin, dark hair and brown eyes his accent was strong To a bigger World he is one who belong Since he has left some of the town's more curious their curiosity only does grow As nothing about him they can claim to know With the local pub patrons he did not mix he drank on his own Perhaps his way of saying he did not wish to be known In the country town he must have felt out of place The young man from elsewhere of a different race In a town where everyone not born and raised locally is seen as a blow in Friendships for an outsider seem near impossible to win Tonight he will be in a town far away Where his it will be just another brief stay The tall dark handsome stranger of the big World out there Who stayed for a few days and then left for elsewhere.