Echo Canyon

The moon hardly shines

Down in Echo Canyon

Just hangs around

About an hour a night

In a sliver of sky

Between narrow horizons

It don't even notice

As it passes me by

The crickets are callin

Across Echo Canyon

A chilly wind moans

To join in the song

Then a coyote howls

Out there in the distance

I ain't goin' nowhere,

So I just sing along

I took a ride

Out toward Echo Canyon

Like I do on those days

When the blues get me down

Went lookin to find

My lost inspiration

Where there's nothin but nothin

For miles around

Rattlesnake on the rim

Along Echo Canyon

Spooked my sweet mare

And I ended up thrown

Now day's turned to night

Down here at the bottom

Where I'm shivering and singing

Just tryin to keep warm

The air has gone still

Here in Echo Canyon

As that cold lonesome feelin

Takes hold of my heart

And there is only the sound

Of some poor lost soul singin'

And the coyotes' answer

Somewhere in the dark