Tumbleweed-Bill Miller

[ti:Tumbleweed] [ar:Bill Miller] [al:Spirit Songs: The Best Of Bill Miller] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.11]Tumbleweed - Bill Miller (比尔·米勒) [00:01.27]Written by：Peter Rowan [00:02.08] [00:44.33]Far across the Mississippi and out on the open plains [00:49.54] [00:51.02]In an Oklahoma cow town where the sky begins to rain [00:55.14] [00:56.20]In a dusty run down honky tonk sits a drifting tumbleweed [01:00.74] [01:03.16]Thumbing through some magazine that he can't even read [01:07.03] [01:18.09]Now tumbleweed remembers how the west was won and lost [01:22.71] [01:24.32]The homestead act and the dust bowl everybody paid the cost [01:28.80] [01:29.79]And the great white father promised to treat his children all the same [01:34.34] [01:35.71]Back when Indian territory was Oklahoma's name [01:40.52] [01:41.44]Oh tumbleweed keep rollin' he just roams from town to town [01:46.63] [01:47.93]It ain't easy for a half breed kid to try and settle down [01:52.00] [01:53.28]Tumbleweed keep rollin' he can't find no place to rest [01:57.86] [01:58.97]Yeah the desert wind blows tumbleweed like some spirit of the west [02:05.52] [02:16.32]Well his boot heals tap in time to an old flat top guitar [02:20.70] [02:21.97]And he's a guitar local hero and he sings straight from the heart [02:26.32] [02:27.49]And his tip jar just a jungle of worn old dollar bills [02:32.49] [02:34.36]He makes his rent and grocery in the local bar and grill [02:38.26] [02:43.49]When he starts to picking that old guitar you know the people turn and stare [02:48.54] [02:49.29]When he starts to sing the songs he wrote wells there's magic in the air [02:53.94] [02:54.92]Cause his song can heal your wounded heart he can set you spirit free [02:59.94] [03:00.84]He can raise you hopes to be the very best that you can be [03:05.80] [03:06.59]Oh tumbleweed keep rollin' he just roams from town to town [03:11.37] [03:13.05]It ain't easy for a half breed kid to try and settle down [03:16.90] [03:18.33]Tumbleweed keep rollin' he can't find no place to rest [03:23.90]Yeah the desert wind blows tumbleweed like some spirit of the west [03:30.67] [03:40.76]So if you cross the Mississippi you head out on the open plain [03:45.35] [03:47.15]And you pass through Oklahoma and the sky begins to rain [03:51.02] [03:52.19]And you feeling kind of rootless you can't find no place to rest [03:57.06] [03:58.93]Just remember tumbleweed he's the spirit of the west [04:05.43] [04:09.63]Oh the desert blows old tumbleweed like some spirit of the west