Robin Holcomb - Iowa Lands lyrics

rate me

Millions of acres of Iowa lands

Soon you can pay for your own farm and home

This gives you the free pass, industrious hands

Whole families

Whole families

Whole families are on the move

Seen enough of the Wild West to make me unfit

To live in the new world, contented in it

My god, and the men

And the women we've met

Whole families

Whole families

Whole families are on the move

Drag all of your treasures out into the yard

Relations who wait for your news need not know

Photographing your happiness here is so hard

All the storms are on the ocean

There's no darkness to soften the daylight

And the old ghosts have all departed

Their great families

Save all of the shadows

Before their fleet substance fades

Make a print you can hold

In the palm of your hand

For one day the land

Is going to wake out

Of a long troubled sleep

To take back your home

And your crops it shall keep

You may follow your road

As far west as it goes

And you tracks will fill up

With the dust, then the snow

Till the land looks much as it did

Long ago, before families were on the move