Am G He is down by the riverside Dm Am Late one night C G He's tryin' to count the stars Dm E E7 In each of the signs All alone by the riverside And time passes by Gathering thoughts of the past And maybe he'll cry C G He's a dreamer Dm Am And he's fightin' for his life C G F He's tryin' to understand C G He's a dreamer Dm Am But he wants to carry on C G F 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