From Tales of A Nice Guy Songwriter by Edward J Kleckner: Into The Sunset started life as just another goodbye song, about a fellow saying farewell to a failed relationship and fading into the sunset, like a cowboy in a bad western movie. For many years it stayed like that and was recorded on the four-track cassette recorder with all the sadness and melancholic crying I could muster. One day, I don't know the reason, I decided to rewrite the words to the song and changed the lyric to emulate a Tom Paxton tune called Ramblin' Boy. My story talked about me and by friend Tom; how we traveled around and did everything together, again very similar to Ramblin' Boy. Towards the end of the song Tom had a problem and left me all alone. There is an O. Henry twist to the story that makes it very unique. This is one of my more cleverest story songs and it made a very good recording on my larger computer system. I may try to re-record it one day because the only flaw I see is that, story wise after Tom and I left Sacramento, we went to Japan, Yokohama specifically, when we should have simply gone to Denver or Albuquerque. So many questions arise when all of a sudden we are in the Far East.