DESERT SILVERY BLUE

Desert silvery blue beneath the pale moonlight
Coyotes yapping lazily on the hill
Sleepy winks of dawn across the far skyline
Time for millin' cattle to be still.

Chorus

So now the lightning's far away
The coyotes nothin' skeery,
just singing to his dearie
Yo ho tomon a holiday
So settle down ye cattle til the mornin'.

2) Nothing out there on the plains
that you folks need
Nothing there that seems to catch your eye
Still you got to watch them
or they'll all stampede
Plunging down some lonely bank to die.

Chorus

3) Always dreamin' dreams of far off silvery blue
Always feelin' thorns that stab and sting
Still stampedin' never made a dream come true
So I'll ride around the range and sing.

Chorus

(According to a new member, who requested these lyrics, this is attributed to the poet, Badger Clark. I can't get to my Clark book to verify. Will try to later. At any rate, thsi is the version which would have come out of Western COlorado. katlaughing)