Wind in the Wire lyrics

Beyond the reef

Where the sea is dark and cold

My love has gone

And my dreams grow old

There'll be no tears

There'll be no regretting

Will she remember me

Will she forget?

I'll send a thousand flowers

When the trade winds blow

I'll send my lonely heart,

'Cause I love her so

Someday I know

She'll come back again to me

'Til then my heart will be

Beyond the reef

Lovely hula hands, graceful as a bird in motion
Riding like the doves over the ocean, lovely hula hands
Kah Li ma na ni'ae
Lovely hula hands, telling of the rain in the valleys
And the swirling winds over Na' Pali, lovely hula hands
Kah Li ma na ni'ae

I can feel the soft caresses of your hula hands, your lovely hula hands

Places I have been,
cities I have seen,
with concrete caverns rising from the ground.
Miles and miles of asphalt trail,
stretch across a land,
stampeding meadow ponies leaving smoke along the way...

I'm going back to paniolo county,
stars at night
no city lights.
Paniolo country, my home on the range.

I made up my mind, won't waste any time

THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL

TRADITIONAL

Oh come along, boys, and listen to my tale,
I'll tell you all my troubles on the ol' Chisholm trail.

(chorus)

Come a-ti yi youpy youpy yea youpy yea

Come a-ti yi youpy youpy yea

On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle,

I was ridin', and a punchin' Texas cattle.

We left ol' Texas October twenty-third

I've 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,
In the stillness of 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.