'bout a mile west of the gravel 12 mile from town there's a homestead, on a hillside tumblin' down and broomgrass grows in the kitchen where my mother played now she's the last to survive on the far side of the cedar with spring butte beside our young lives, they were fine there when nature was kind and there was never a thought of departing from the family line and we thought we were holy, set apart from those towns before the unwinding ties on the far side of the cedar the spring has run dry... (long version bridge) (then the rain stopped, and the train stopped, and the grain stopped but nothin' stopped time all of the brothers were evicted by God; the fathers resigned but I made a vow, to go back somehow if You'ld give me a sign Lord I'd know, that you're willing if that creek would rise) The old cottonwoods have died there silver tombstones to time and the barnyard is silent and empty and the herd left no sign and way up on the hill, a lone whipporwill is crying for the far side of the cedar, with spring butte beside on the far side of the cedar, with spring butte beside