Road Song

How I love these roads

Every far and lonely highway,

Through basin and range

And a desert that never ends-

A sky so wide

You can feel your heart turn quiet,

And then I listen

For the voices of my friends

One rides in the summer wind beside me,

One flies with the stars

That set the wild night on fire,

One runs close and steady as a river,

I could drive for miles

Carried by that choir.

From the hills of my hometown,

To the Arizona canyons,

From Chinle to Sky City

To the gorge of the Rio Grande-

The high and winding way

From Chimayo to Las Trampas,

The long road bends

To the sweet sound of my friends.

One's up where the clouds brush the mountains,

One rushes down a stream

Past the bright columbine -

I could drive for miles

Just thinking about them,

How I love the road

And these true friends of mine.

One rides in the summer wind beside me,

One flies with the stars

That set the wild night on fire,

One runs close and steady as a river

I could drive for miles

Carried by that choir.