Wyoming

Why, oh why, oh why? Oh Wyoming Why can't you bring me back The things you stole? Darling, you owe me With tears I cry to the great big sky up above me Lord, let them open up and quench my soul And show me you love me My daddy was a workhorse, he lived off the land Sowed these here fields with his own two hands Tried hard to show me just how to be a man But a fever took him slow His father before him was a miner with a gun He fought the Shoshone and a bullet won Before he died, you know he tried to teach his only son Just how to be a man, but he didn't even understand He said Why, oh why, oh why? Oh Wyoming Why can't you bring me back The things you stole? Darling, you owe me With tears I cry To the great big sky up above me Lord, let them open up and quench my soul And show me you love me Now the creek is all dried up It ain't flowing no more And the mines left the wells all poisoned with ore And the rail cars don't stop here There's nothing to see But old rundown mine shacks and sunken in teeth The land of the hopeless The land of the free For richer and poorer and no one between She took all my family She took all my pride And just left me wondering why Why, oh why, oh why? Oh Wyoming Why can't you bring me back The things you stole? Darling, you owe me With tears I cry To the great big sky up above me Lord, let them open up and quench my soul And show me you love me