When The Cimarron Was Red And On The Rise (Album Version)-Red Steagall

[ti:When The Cimarron Was Red And On The Rise (Album Version)] [ar:Red Steagall] [al:Born To This Land] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When The Cimarron Was Red And On The Rise - Red Steagall [00:11.30]Riding back to Texas [00:13.25]From a drive to abilene [00:14.87] [00:15.64]With the wagon [00:16.74]The remuda and the crew [00:18.70] [00:20.27]The cimarron was boiling red and rising [00:23.41]By the hour [00:24.74]It was suicide to push the horses through [00:27.96] [00:29.37]Cotty bill was pining by his darling Anna Lee [00:33.51] [00:34.16]He left her crying back in san anton [00:36.90] [00:38.75]A thousand times he red the note he carried in [00:42.17]His jeans [00:42.83] [00:43.50]Cotty darling won't you hurry home [00:46.22] [00:47.91]But trailing longhorn cattle is a life at [00:51.01]Wild and free [00:52.38] [00:53.47]And the prairie is a puncher's paradise [00:56.58] [00:58.24]But it was dark and deadly in the Spring of 83 [01:02.32] [01:03.94]When the cimarron was red and on the rise [01:07.88] [01:08.90]We were at the wagon [01:10.78]Playin' cards and [01:12.00]Tellin' lies [01:12.74] [01:13.26]When he announced that he was goin' on [01:16.04] [01:17.76]We told him he was crazy [01:20.17]He would never make it through [01:22.39]But cotty smiled and saddled up the roan [01:25.60] [01:27.13]Then I made him a promise [01:29.15]I'd look after Anna Lee [01:31.10] [01:31.61]In case he didn't make it through the night [01:34.44] [01:36.27]He turned his collar to the wind and bid us adios [01:40.26] [01:41.07]And whistling dixie he ruled out of sight [01:43.80] [01:45.44]And trailing longhorn cattle is a life at [01:48.68]Wild and free [01:49.97] [01:51.30]But the devil is playing hell in paradise [01:54.23] [01:55.92]'Cause it was dark and deadly in the Spring of 83 [01:59.99] [02:01.44]When the cimarron was red and on the rise [02:05.66] [02:11.23]It was nearly seven days before we got across [02:14.93] [02:15.75]The roan was in the shadow of a hill [02:18.32] [02:20.40]He was skinned from head to toe and covered [02:23.27]Up with mud [02:24.08] [02:24.77]But there was not a sign of cotty bill [02:27.73] [02:29.11]Oh I guess we knew that he was gone [02:31.70]When we looked anyhow [02:33.24] [02:33.92]The road for a mile and searched on either side [02:36.64] [02:38.35]We combed the brush and dragged our ropes in [02:41.11]Every waterhole [02:42.46] [02:43.06]But cotty bill had taken his last ride [02:46.35] [02:47.70]And I kept my promise and I married Anna Lee [02:52.02] [02:53.38]And the boy we're raising has his daddy's eyes [02:56.45] [02:58.04]Someday I'll tell him more about the Spring of 83 [03:02.06] [03:03.58]When the cimarron was red and on the rise [03:07.58] [03:08.21]'Cause it was dark and deadly in the Spring of 83 [03:12.38] [03:13.87]When the cimarron was red and on the rise