Brown Canyon Ranch, You Take Me Back draft Y10W1
A sure enough country song. Not my usual style, but I did it for an exercise.
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Story behind the song
About an area in the Coronado National Forest in SE Arizona near Fort Huachuca. It's a great place to hike. It has a house that is over 100 years old, which has been preserved and restored. It has a water tank that is fed from a spring high up the mountain.
Lyrics
verse:
I stand on your porch where many have stood.
I admire the pond from the house of rough wood.
Plastic pipes have replaced the iron
But the water still springs from high up the mountain.
Where the wilderness is marked with a sign.
Back then the wilderness had no line.
The signs warn us now: stay away from the mine.
The house that stood below it is gone with the time.
A rusted old oven, some steps, broken glass
And the garbage from those who pass.
If we listen and watch we could still see a deer
Or the footprints of a bear.
We climb higher and higher, leave the city behind.
Though not far away, it's in another time.
We rest a while by the gentle stream,
Each of us lost in our dreams.
We descend to the car and drive away
To return to the present day.
chorus:
Brown Canyon Ranch, you take me back
To when you were a homestead and long before that.
Though the work was hard and some didn't survive.
I long for that simpler life.
