I wish I could have seen it just as they did
Lookin over God’s country sittin top of a ridge
By the seat of a horse or an old wagon train
On that sea of prairie settin sail ‘cross the plains
Chasin the sun, headin westbound for more
Out where the the do soar
I’da seen the Missouri, before she dammed
the sod busted the train tracks
the range open free that wire
the law for hire
the great herds plenty the close
round fires, the smoked
I see a canyon paved
them they carved rocks that God made
The lights of the sky ain’t just sun, stars
ours
Ohh what I’d give just for glimpse
At the West that the life lived
I wish I could have seen it just as they did
Lookin over God’s country sittin top of a ridge
By the seat of a horse or an old wagon train
On that sea of prairie settin sail ‘cross the plains
Chasin the sun, headin westbound for more
Out where the the do soar
I’da seen the Missouri, before she dammed
the sod busted the train tracks
the range open free that wire
the law for hire
the great herds plenty the close
round fires, the smoked
I see a canyon paved
them they carved rocks that God made
The lights of the sky ain’t just sun, stars
ours
Ohh what I’d give just for glimpse
At the West that the life lived
