PECOS WIND

                  Jimmy Dale Godwin - BMI / John Early - BMI

Down from Topeka in the freezin’ snow

In a covered wagon together they did go

Cross the mountains so high and the valley so low

Ridin’ on the Pecos wind

It was a winter of ‘65

Sold everything that they had to stay alive

And they learned how to love and they learned to survive

And they grew strong like the Pecos wind

They planted crops and they built a home

They had a young boy and he started to roam

And his father told him son that the West had not been won

They must be strong like the old Pecos wind

Like the old Pecos wind

Pecos winds blow, how those winds blow so strong

Pecos winds blow, how those winds move you on, they move you on

The cowboy’s life it grew reckless and wild

Soon at his grave wept his woman and child

But as he made his last request, that he failed all the while

You must be strong like the Pecos wind

His son grew to be a man and he stood tall

In his heart he still wondered at it all

And as he gazed across the land, and he heard the coyote call

That there’s life in those old Pecos winds

There’s a legend in that old Pecos wind

Pecos winds blow, how those winds blow so strong

Pecos winds blow, how those winds move you on, they move you on