Your Wild Western Heart

We started out at Council Bluffs

And headed for the sun,

Then scattered half our wagonload

Before it had begun,

The thunder spooked the oxen,

Sent them dashing through the rain,

Spreading pantaloons and petticoats

Across the soggy plains.

In your wild western heart

Don't you want us to prevail?

Though you burn us with your summer

And you pound us with your hail,

You tempted us with riches

If we made it 'cross your trail,

In your wild western heart

Don't you want us to prevail?

When little Jeremiah took

A fever yesterday,

I swear the highest mountain goat

Could hear our family pray,

By nightfall he was healthy

And we blessed the one who saves,

'Cause on the way, we must have passed

At least a thousand graves.

In your wild western heart

Don't you want us to succeed?

Do you hear our plaintive voices

In our darkest hour of need?

You offered open spaces

Waiting for us to proceed,

In your wild western heart

Don't you want us to succeed?

We heard about the Donners and

Their nightmare in the snow,

So Jacob gets us moving in

The early morning glow,

From mountain lions to blizzards

We have faced up to our fears,

They fortified our souls and turned

Us into pioneers

In your wild western heart

Don't you want us to survive?

Do you care if we all perish

Or we make it through alive?

You promised fertile valleys

Waiting there when we arrive,

In your wild western heart

Don't you want us to survive?

Bluegrass / Western Lyric by Dennis Goodwin - copyright 2007 e-mail: ezywriter47@hotmail.com