Cypress Hills and the Big Country

By Colter Wall

On Cypress Hills and the Big Country

Released on September 21, 2022

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[Verse 1]

You can see the bear paws, the old man on his back

Prickly pears, a blue moon in the short and native grass

There's a bunch of empty beer cans in an old, loose mineral sack

Give you some idea of where you're at


[Verse 2]

Buck brush and sage far as you can see

It's the south slopes of the hills and turns to pines and poplar trees

Cattle all grazin' up and down a big coulee

Under Charley Russel skies like a blue and purple sea


[Chorus]

Cypress Hills and the big country below

Where life is still and a man can be alone

And you can duck underneath all your trials and troublеs for a time

Like a pronghorn undernеath a bottom wire


[Instrumental Break]


[Chorus]

Cypress Hills and the big country below

Where life is still and a man can be alone

You can duck underneath all your trials and troubles for a time

Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire


[Outro]

You can sweat and cuss and wonder why

They say our west has died

When the folks around the Cypress Hills

Still drag calves to the fire