Everett Ruess Lyrics - Singles - Dave Alvin

I was born Everett Ruess 

I've been dead for sixty years 

I was just a young boy in my twenties 

The day I disappeared 

Into the Grand Escalante Badlands 

Near the Utah and Arizona line 

And they never found my body, boys 

Or understood my mind 

I grew up in California 

And I loved my family and my home 

But I ran away to the High Sierra 

Where I could live free and alone 

And folks said, Hes just another wild kid 

Hell grow out of it in time 

But they never found my body, boys 

Or understood my mind 

I broke broncos with the cowboys 

I sang healing songs with the Navajo 

I did the snake dance with the Hopi 

And I drew pictures everywhere I go 

Then I swapped all my drawings for provisions 

To get what I needed to get by 

And they never found my body, boys 

Or understood my mind 

Well I hate your crowded cities 

With the sad and hopeless mobs 

And I hate your grand cathedrals 

Where you try to trap God 

Cause I know God is here in the canyons 

With the rattlesnakes and the pinon pines 

And they never found my body, boys 

Or understood my mind 

They say I was killed by a drifter 

Or I froze to death in the snow 

Maybe mauled by a wildcat 

Or Im livin down in Mexico 

But my end, it doesnt really matter 

All that counts is how you live your life 

And they never found my body, boys 

Or understood my mind 

But you give your dreams away as you get older 

And oh but I never gave up mine 

And theyll never find my body, boys 

Or understand my mind