Western Skies - Chris Ledoux

My Nashville friends think I’m strange to make my home out on the range

Think it’s nothin' but a God-forsaken land

Why don’t you bring your guitar and family, move on down to Tennesse

Well, I just smile because they don’t understand

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain mornin'

Watched those cotton candy clouds go by

They’d know why I live beneath these Western Skies

I got peace of mind and elbow room I love the smell of sage in bloom

Catch a rainbow on my fishin' line

We got county fairs and rodeos, ain’t a better place for my kids to grow

Just turn 'em loose in the western summer time

And if you ever held your woman on a summer’s evening

While the prairie moon was blazin' in her eyes

You’d know why I live beneath these Western Skies

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You ain’t lived until you’ve watched those Northern Lights

Sat around the campfire and hear the coyotes call at night

Makes you feel alright

So guess I’ll stay right where I’m at, wear my boots and my cowboy hat

But I’ll come and see ya once in a while

I’ll bring my guitar and sing my songs, sorry if I don’t stay too long

I love Tennessee but ya know it just not my style

I gotta be where I can see those Rocky Mountains

Ride my horse and watch an eagle fly

I gotta live my life and write my songs beneath these Western Skies

When I die you can bury me beneath these Western Skies, Yippee-ay