Tom Russell - Rayburn Crane lyrics

Rayburn Crane he rode these mountains like the streams he rode 'em through Through the Farewell Gap and the Franklin Lakes Up North to Chagupa Plateau With the government men and the hunters and the dudes And the leaders of the business world Yah, Rayburn Crane was a packhorse man And a mighty good hand with a mule. Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane The Mountains and the Valleys and the Trees Remember your name. He rode 45 years through the mountains and the valleys just a-pullin' them strings of mules And the ropes and the chaps and the halters & the saddles well these were Rayburn's tools Sittin' down at night by the firelight talkin' and a-pullin' at the whiskers on his chin You didn't need no music when Rayburn went to talkin' 'bout the mountains and the packhorse men. Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane The Mountains and the Valleys and the Trees Remember your name. Well the business men they bought these mountains for a big time ski resort An Ol' Rayburn he's gone down to die in a Three Rivers' trailer court And the canvas-flapjack-cooktent moans with the bushes and the trees in the wind 'Cause there ain't no place in a ski resort for a mule skinnin' packhorse man. Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane The Mountains and the Valleys and the Trees Remember your name. Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane The Mountains and the Valleys and the Trees Remember your name.