Cowboys and Canyon Queens

I miss Oklahoma
 Her boundless, rolling land
 The tallgrass hair
 She twirls in her hand
 A paintbrush wildflower, with her arms red and tan
 Gather 'round you cowboys
 And all you canyon queens
 I'm going back the country
 To see what all this means
 California's dreaming
 Her desert under clouds
 LA becomes a dancer
 In a shroud
 Calls to me sweetly, but her traffic is too loud
 Gather 'round you cowboys
 And all you canyon queens
 I'm going back the country
 To see what all this means
 Everywhere's on fire
 Or under the sea
 The earth is shaking
 Down Tornado Alley
 And I'm often scared, home won't be there
 Waiting for me
 Gather 'round you cowboys
 And all you canyon queens
 I'm going back the country
 To see what all this means
 The long-worn ribbon
 Tying up our towns
 I'm always in the middle
 When it comes unwound
 If I was ever choking, you were there to cut me down
 Gather 'round you cowboys
 And all you canyon queens
 I'm going back the country
 To see what all this means
 The emeralds of your eyes
 The topaz of your skin
 And a diamond heart too hard
 To let me in
 The prairie birds rest upon the crown placed on your head
 Gather 'round you cowboys
 And all you canyon queens
 I'm going back the country
 To see what all this means
 The Trinity is still now
 Electric fences hum
 I'll never see I-35
 Be done
 And Corinth, you'll be singing a song to hush your son
 Gather 'round you cowboys
 And all you canyon queens
 Life is for living
 And nothing's what it seems