Lucky Mud
2016-02-10
Michael McKinney
Lyrics
A yodel makes the sound of the moon
When it's a hundred miles away
From city lights
And just out of the reach of your hands
A campfire sounds like castanets
A river, like a woman's breath
And the cowboy makes the sound of loneliness
-yodel
A cowboy's not a cowboy
Because he wants to be
He's a cowboy
'Cause he can't do nothing else
A canyon walls don't reach as high
A desert just don't seem as wide
As the main street
Of some old cattle town
-yodel
CHORUS:
So leave some open land for the cowboy
One unbroken trail
One mountain to the sky
Leave a pretty girl
Waiting for him at the end
Of some long and dusty
Cattle drive
-yodel
A yodel makes the sound
Of a lone coyote
It's the way a heart sounds
When it breaks
The wind is like a baby's cry
A freight train like a last goodbye
A yodel's just a lullaby
Just the way a cowboy tries
To settle with the world
-yodel
