Name: RAK 13 Cedar Breaks
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Channel: Martin Stirrup
Description: "RAK 13 Cedar Breaks" is a song by martin stirrup. A gentle country ballad about the joys of the wild...

RAK 13 Cedar Breaks

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A gentle country ballad about the joys of the wild...

country cedar breaks

martin stirrup

Singer-songwriter, arranger and producer: acoustic contemporary folk but ranging into rock/blues/country/jazz/humour...all very eclectic, I'm afraid!

Martin Stirrup Singer/songwriter An old folkie who got back into it... These days I sing and play guitar(s) and other stringed instruments, then score and orchestrate where appropriate. My taste becomes increasingly eclectic ranging from finger-picked folk through country to soft rock mixed in with a few more alternative and eccentric numbers, including the odd novelty foxtrot...

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Charts

Peak #49

Peak in subgenre #17

Author

Martin Stirrup

Rights

Martin Stirrup

Uploaded

October 19, 2014

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.0 MB • 160 kbps • 3:27

Story behind the song

Before  my son Oliver & Truly visited the Southwestern States we had a long chat about the best routes and Nation Parks to visit. Cedar Breaks is a small(er) National Monument to the north of Bryce Canyon with similar orange hoodoos but at higher altitude and one of our favourite places.  I wrote this playful homage to the place almost as soon as they left!

Lyrics

RAK 13 Cedar Breaks (Steve Franks harmonies)

C				D		
Up amongst the bristle cones, blue sky over orange stones
G                		    G7                        C       G7
When I’m not there my poor heart surely aches
C				           D	
Nestling there amongst the flowers, gazing from the ridge for hours 
                 G			      G7                         C
Take me back to that heaven on Earth that is cedar breaks

F    				       C            F                 C
Some folks  like the city, with its buildings straight and tall
                 D			D7        G                 Abm          G    G+				
But when I’m there mores the pity, I don’t want to be there at all

C					   D
Take me where the world’s still green, peaceful and so serene
G        			G7            C
Won’t you take me back to cedar breaks


Driving up that winding road
Watch the sun a-spilling gold
Roll on through the pastures glowing green
See the hoodoos standing tall
All along the canyon wall
It’s just the finest place I’ve ever been

Some folks like ther city
With its manicured garden lawns
But they’re just not as pretty
              G            F          Am7       G7
As that place that mother nature adorns

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