Tom Paxton - Buffalo Dreams lyrics

Just one more child of the prairie Whisperin' prairie winds blow through my soul Her endless skies amaze me still And I expect they always will And some envisions out past my control Conestoga wagons in their thousands A-carried restless hearts across these plains Dreams of fertile land or gold Fed a hunger uncontrolled And bred an endless line of wagon trains Jack-knife winds won't ever cease their blowing Summer sun's burned down on dwindlin' streams Women stand in doorways looking southward While old men lie and dream their buffalo dreams I stand starlight struck tonight in Kansas Beside a trail still visible today Soon these fields of waving weed will Rise in the summer rain and heat ‘til Harvest crews come carry them away Jack-knife winds won't ever cease their blowing Summer sun burns down on dwindlin' streams Women stand in doorways lookin' southward While old men lie and dream their buffalo dreams Something in her prairie soil has bound me Whispering gra**es are my evening song Steamboats on the wide Missouri Whistle as they barrel through Prepared tonight to carry me along And the jack-knife winds won't ever cease their blowing Summer sun burns down on dwindlin' streams Women stand in doorways lookin' southward While old men lie and dream their buffalo dreams The old men lie and dream their buffalo dream