Across the vast wide prairie where tall grain meets the sun, wagon trains carried settlers on journeys first begun The wind was called Mariah as it sang its old sweet song, buffalo grazed, prairie dogs played, sod houses there belonged Sunburned faces worked the land to make large plats their own, with horse teams for the plowing, they cared no more to roam No fence lines then were present, all lands were open, free, and men could choose their labor out on the lone prairie The songs sang of their coming, and sometimes why they’d go, even at their gravesites, hymns sung sweet and low Cowboys herded cattle, farmers sowed the wheat, all men worked together insuring food to eat Prairie fires were to be feared as the wind whipped up a blaze, settlers scurried here and there to douse it tho’ half crazed Children grew up hardy and passed the time in play until they fit a saddle, their chores began that day For the song of prairie life was passed down thru’ the ages, each one pulled their weight in work, as seasons changed in stages Songs of hardships still are sung tho’ times have changed today, farmers barely can survive with government in the way The cattlemen raised fences God never meant to see, cutting off green pastures out on the vast prairie But the song will thus continue in generations to come, the wind will carry songs of old as distant combines hum For it’s the will of the people to sing their song so free, listen close and you shall hear THEE SONG OF LIBERTY…
Nice wordings about the life of the people at the country side. Grazing the animals, growing crops which is not an easy job. where hard work is involved but still they love they life and enjoy and sing merrily. I always love to observe the villagers working.