Birdcages and Bad Rivers

Mystic Cowboys

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Crossing the Prairie

I had a dream but I lost the plan

I speak a language I don’t understand

I spend all my time crossing the prairie

Abandoned places you can see the bones

Corporate farms nobody’s home that’s the way it is now

Crossing the prairie

The white man comes and the Indians go

The tourists roll by just to see the show

There’s pretty farm girls but before they know

Just how hard that cold wind blows they marry

We all dream of crossing the prairie

I learned a bit it seems I can’t teach

The coyotes eat all that they can reach

They leave me hungry crossing the prairie

And the twinkle stars are my campfire

And me and the Chief can’t get no higher

You’ll see us crossing the prairie

The white man comes and the Indians go

The tourists roll by just to see the show

There’s pretty farm girls but before they know

Just how hard that cold wind blows they marry

We all dream of crossing the prairie

We all dream of crossing the prairie

We all dream of crossing the prairie