Mountain Ranges Open Pages

Musical Influence:

Dixie Chicks Cowboy Take Me Away

Content influence:

A writing pad on the dining room table 

My life's an open book

(My) voice is a mountain brook

Always babbling away

But always something sweet to say

I want to write on an open page

Not sing upon a stage

I want to hear others singing

That's the gift that I am bringing

I want to climb (to) the mountain top

Be happy with what I've got

Walk free through unruled mountain ranges

Making friends with wandering strangers

I want to walk barefoot in a mountain meadows

Cool down in mountain shadows

I want to pick wild mountains flowers

Wandering for hours and hours

I want to chop some fire wood

Nothing makes cooking taste so good

Like hunger from hard working would

This is living like we should

I want to capture every line

Make bread and cherry wine

Set a table on a tree stump and

Call it the mountain's finest dining

I want to find a mountain man

Who'll come and take a stand

But when the twilight comes around

Will sit and hold me by the hand

I want to head up on the hills

Sing sweet old mountain trills

I want to sing and not worry

That I need to be in some hurry

I want draw on unruled pages

Like mountain folks have done for ages

I want to draw water from a wishing well

I want to lie sleeping the sun a spell

I won't pave the way for you

Just maybe break a branch or two

Leaving a trail like scouters do

Then you'll know I'm out there too

(High up on the mountain

Few would even dare to climb)

If you see a notch upon tree

Know that it was me

I want to climb and climb and climb

The highest mountains

I want to sing another mountain song

I want someone to sing along

After this trip I'm taking

I'll be on the mountain, I'll be waiting

High up on the mountain

Few would even dare be climbing

High up on the mountain

I'll be rhyming