Westbound Woman Lyrics

All my kin left me was their deaths

First they took everything then banks took the rest

I brought down my best calico and got dressed

Then left the east on a train headed west

I stepped alone from the train and found a Buffalo skinner

Who told me "Sunrise you don't need to be no thinner

If you'll build us a fire I'll catch our dinner

Come on and make a camp with a heathen sinner

Old Sam he taught me how to break a horse

And different ways that I could find a water source

He also taught me how to choose my course

And Old Sam never once took me by force

Old Sam said "Maybe I've had enough of wilderness

A woman like you could make a man like me call it quits

He spread his arms out and said "We could have all this

Come and stake this ground here with me against loneliness

We worked long together to tame the land

I still stare out at the stars and try to understand

How I could have come so far to find my perfect man

And our perfect little farm on this perfect land

The sun comes up through our farm and goes down too

Across the valley of my heart our generations grew

My buffalo skinner said "Sunrise I always knew

Someday I would find the train that carried you

I told my buffalo skinner "I'm glad you knew