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lyrics

I hung coyote’s tail from my front cinch for good fortune
I stitched my boots with rawhide, blew my smoke rings around the stars
That Barb-y Mustang did her best to buck her packs this mornin
ain’t she just as green as I was, bed & board, dark to dark

Yonder come my love upon a horse as light as mornin
the silver swirlin’ shallows splash her spurs so cold and sharp
we turn our backs on the Tamaracks a-heeding winter’s warnin
aint they just as green as I was, bed and board dark to dark

they turn
golden & gorgeous
all unfolded before us
we left our hoofprints from the Imnaha to the East Fork,
Love was just as green as I was, bed & board, dark to dark

Then a different kind of darkness came,
as dark as the storm we’re born in
I could not hold it all alone, I was hollow, hard at heart
The Imnaha was half frozen
I was half alone then
love was just as broke as I was bed & board, dark to dark

I could claim I never knew ya
too much dust in my throat to sing those hallelujahs
I was wayfared, I held my witness mark
love was just as broke as I was bed n board, dark to dark

I hung coyote’s tail from my front cinch for good fortune
I stitched my boots with rawhide, blew my smoke rings around the stars
That Barb-y Mustang did her best to buck her packs this mornin
ain’t she just as green as I was, bed & board, dark to dark

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from O Bronder, Donder Yonder?, released May 10, 2019

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Forrest VanTuyl Goldendale, Washington

Forrest VanTuyl is a Western songwriter, poet, and working cowboy based in the Inland Northwest. His work has been featured in the New York Times, at The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and he has written music for the US Forest Service.

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