Rodeo Wind Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Chris Wall 

Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning 

As he struggles with an old dream all night long 

And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him 

She whispers to a shadow and finds him gone 

Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning 

She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song 

She watches as he takes, his old saddle from the wall 

A sudden chill runs through her in the cold of the not quite dawn 

Chorus: 

She's losing him, to the rodeo wind 

That blows through his soul, when the summer begins 

When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again 

But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind 

One sure way to lose him 

Is to try and make him stay 

He can't explain he don't even know himself 

But the force that drew her to him 

Has just gotta break away 

And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel 

Is the only thing that helps 

Bridge: 

Now it all makes sense, those signs she's been seeing all along 

She feels like such a fool, a woman ought to know 

Just the other day, she saw him sittin' on the south fence 

Throwing stones at prairie dogs, and staring down the road 

Chorus