The Great Divide-Tim Hus

[ti:The Great Divide] [ar:Tim Hus] [al:Bush Pilot Buckaroo] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Divide - Tim Hus/Gary Fjellgaard [00:16.46]The iron struck fire on a Bar U brand [00:22.50] [00:24.80]And they're stretching the wire out across the land [00:31.19] [00:32.98]The bridges are burning that run to the past [00:38.81] [00:40.30]And there's smoke in the wind in the Whiskey Gap [00:46.65] [00:50.36]On a Porcupine ridge they stood on the crest [00:53.93] [00:55.00]They reigned in their mounts [00:56.35]And they looked to the West [00:58.72] [00:59.40]The great silent peaks they don't make a sound [01:02.68] [01:03.61]The ghost riders cry from the Buffalo Ground [01:07.30] [01:09.71]The rivers cut through where the long grass grew [01:14.79] [01:15.59]And the North star guards the night sky [01:19.10] [01:21.10]The high lonesome ranges have seen all the changes [01:25.03]And the scars that were carved there by time [01:27.94] [01:30.55]On the Great Divide [01:33.47] [01:48.06]The rainfall from above on the highest ridge [01:51.54] [01:52.35]Lands on a fulcrum upon where it splits [01:55.88] [01:56.64]One drop begins a quest for the coast [02:00.74]Through the trickle and the streams [02:02.70]Where the groundwater flows [02:04.42] [02:08.59]Another drop finds a runoff riverbed [02:11.97] [02:12.97]The source at the head of a great watershed [02:16.49] [02:17.22]And always onward with the silt and the sand [02:20.72] [02:21.29]To the mouth of the basin of Rupert's Land [02:25.16] [02:29.13]The rivers cut through where the long grass grew [02:32.53] [02:33.33]And the North star guards the night sky [02:35.86] [02:38.47]The high lonesome ranges have seen all the changes [02:42.38] [02:42.90]And the scars that were carved there by time [02:45.47] [02:48.22]On the Great Divide [02:51.32] [03:05.64]Time is a sojourn and the waters stands still [03:09.07] [03:09.93]The mysteries aren't written with parchment and quil [03:13.47] [03:14.14]But branded forever on the foothills breeze [03:17.50] [03:18.35]Where the wagon ruts cover the first memories [03:21.85] [03:26.03]Now there's an iron horse through the Kicking Horse [03:30.37]And the timberwood trestles on high [03:32.99] [03:34.50]From the Yellowstone Park to the Yellowhead Pass [03:38.16] [03:39.12]The waters still part where the ancient formations divide [03:43.92] [03:47.82]The rivers cut through where the long grass grew [03:51.17] [03:52.03]And the North star guards the night sky [03:54.64] [03:57.45]The high lonesome ranges have seen all the changes [04:00.84] [04:01.44]And the scars that were carved there by time [04:04.14] [04:06.85]On the Great Divide