Up On The Llano Estacado (3:22)

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Garre LaGrone
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UP ON THE LLANO ESTACADO
Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'BOUT DANG TIME MUSIC, BMI

ISRC: TCAIO2467267

VERSE 1
Where the prairie meets the Western sky
up on the great Staked Plains
For a thousand years,
‘fore the cattle drives came here,
the Apache danced for rain.
In a waving vast ocean of grass
a million Bison used to roam.
But they’re all gone
from the Llano Estacado

Verse Two
From the rim of the Palo Duro
to Nuevo Mexico
It’s miles of furrowed ground
full of little towns
with humble, honest hard workin' folks
People passing through
may not see the beauty
of “High Cotton” and Red Milo rows
But that’s how we roll
up on the Llano Estacado.

CHORUS
Where you’ll see
the prettiest sunsets
your eyes have ever seen
Out where the winter wheat grows
‘cause the Deere that are
“home on the range”
these days are green.
Like that big Amarillo sky,
this Cowboy life
is in my heart and in my soul
It’s my home
up on the Llano Estacado

Verse 3
There’s a Meadowlark singin’
a springtime song
on a crooked old cedar post,
as a whirlwind dances
‘long a barbed wire fence,
then disappears like a prairie ghost.
Behind a rusty old plow’s
a new calf and a mama cow’s
close-by and she’s lettin’ me know!
Love to watch ‘em grow
Up on the Llano Estacado

REPEAT CHORUS END