Bucking Horse Moon Lyrics - Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs - Tom Russell

Down a one lane road there's a dusty fairground 

Where I learned the bronc trade and I fell in love 

With a blue eyed twister and her smoky whisper 

She said "they call me the Cimarron Dove" 

We'd spool our bedrolls on down together 

My calloused hands combed through her hair 

She'd stare at a star through an old mesquite tree 

"See that moon shadow, there's a bucking horse there" 

Sweet bird of youth, no easy keeper 

Flown with the seasons all too soon 

Beneath Montana's blue roan skies 

Nevada starlight and a bucking horse moon 

Our love reeled out like a Western movie 

Down hard worn highways through the rodeo towns 

Wrapped in her wings for the midnight flight 

That bucking horse moon kept shining down 

Bucking horse moon on the hood of the truck 

She'd smile and say "that means good luck 

Bucking horse shadow through the purple sage 

We'll ride forever our love won't age" 

But heart and bone are made for breaking 

The Cimarron Dove's flown with the wind 

Then a bronc in Prescott rolled on my back 

I'll never ride rough stock again 

Sweet bird of youth, no easy keeper 

Flown with the seasons all too soon 

Beneath Montana's blue roan skies 

Nevada starlight and a bucking horse moon 

I lost my youth on the dusty fairgrounds 

I'm an old bronc fighter long past high noon 

But on a haunted night wind I can hear her whispering 

As I search the heavens for the bucking horse moon 

The Cimarron Dove and the bucking horse moon 

Sweet bird of youth, no easy keeper 

Flown with the seasons all too soon 

Beneath Montana's blue roan skies 

Nevada starlight and the bucking horse moon 

Wyoming sundown and a bucking horse moon