Too Many Trees

I grew up where the prairie sage brush grows up to three feet high

By the time I was ten, I could see over them where the mountains touch the sky

I took off at eighteen to see what the world was all about

Met a blue-eyed Carolina girl that had my future all planned out

But you ain't ever gonna leave these hills

And I wanna die where the coyote cry and the gray wolf kills

From where I'm standing, I can't see forever with you and me

There's too many towns and not enough cows

And way too many trees

I love your folks like they're my own and I'm crazy about you

But there's too much cowboy in my bones to be dug up by my roots

We could build ourselves a house here, but it won't ever be my home

So let's call a spade a spade and just stay where we belong

But you ain't ever gonna leave these hills

And I wanna die where the coyote cry and the gray wolf kills

From where I'm standing, I can't see forever with you and me

There's too many towns and not enough cows

And way too many trees

So let me go 'fore it's too late

Baby, spare me the heartbreak

You ain't ever gonna leave these hills

And I wanna die where the coyote cry and the gray wolf kills

From where I'm standing, I can't see forever with you and me

There's too many towns and not enough cows

Too much noise and not enough sound

And way too many trees