As We Took the Cattle Home

City men in suits have brought another hammer down

On a life we made for many years just doing natures rounds

Driving cattle like my father and his father before him

We no longer ride these rolling hills of green

They’ve made all of their choices sight unseen

That hat there was my granddad’s he rode his saddle high

He gave it to my father just the day before he died

And my daddy wore it proudly, until he passed it on to me

And I know that they would both turn in their graves

If the mountains sounds of silence cant be saved

If you listen to the wind it tells so much about these hills

How the cattle used to run free all alone

Now they cant push through this forest, Cause the Bureaucrats have killed

They only thing my family’s ever known

How we touched the heavens, As we took the cattle home

If only they knew the real damage that they had done

How a farmer just like me who’d always fought and won

Had to hang that hat on a hook never worn again

I’m glad my daddy’s not alive today

‘Cause to make this choice like this, would have Killed him anyway

If you listen to the wind it tells so much about these hills

How the cattle used to run free all alone

Now they cant push through this forest, Cause the Bureaucrats have killed

They only thing my family’s ever known

How we touched the heavens, As we took the cattle home

As we took the cattle home