Wind in the Wire

(Stewart McDougall - David Wilkie)



I'd been riding fence all day

Way up on the summer range

Found a place to make my bed

As the evening shadows spread.



Beyond the campfire light

Through the stillness of the night

Came the call of a coyote choir

And the song of the wind in the wire.



As it strummed the rusted strings

It sang of long forgotten things

Many moons and many suns of the real Americans

When the arrow and the bow

Stopped the reigns of buffalo

And call of the coyote choir

And you know the song of the wind in the wire.



--- Instrumental ---



As the ghostly balladeer

Hypnotized me I could hear

Bugle calls and battle cries,

Broken promises and lies.



The spirits of the plain

Still sing their sad refrain

And the call of the coyote choir

And the song of the wind in the wire.



Spirits of the plain

Still sing their sad refrain

And the call of the coyote choir

And the song of the wind in the wire...