G
He sits in the kitchen in the early evening light
D
With a poster on the wall about the garden of life
G
She brings bread to the table and sits down at his side
D D7
After forty years he still touches her as if she were a bride
C D G
On Red Mountain Ranch
C D G
The red dirt fills your clothes
C G Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
D G
And rise when the rooster crows
On hot summer days, feedback ringing through the trees
D
There's songs of life and freedom, kids playing in the creek
G
He's a potter and a dreamer, he's a builder and a sage
D D7
She's his roots and his direction, his partner on the stage
C D G
On Red Mountain Ranch
C D G
The red dirt fills your clothes
C G Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
D G
And rise when the rooster crows
There's sheep and cows and chickens, fat cats running loose
D
A dog hanging 'round the house, a pony named Hay-soos
G
Rattlesnake alliance, mourning doves and hawks
D D7
Stars that fill the night sky and castles made of rocks
C D G
On Red Mountain Ranch
C D G
The red dirt fills your clothes
C G Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
D G
And rise when the rooster crows
It's written on their faces like the truth carved on a stone
D
A love for all god's children, the growing and the grown
G
Smiles that take you in, food that feeds the heart
D D7
Words that reach to hold you when the miles keep you apart
C D G
On Red Mountain Ranch
C D G
The red dirt fills your clothes
C G Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
D G
And rise when the rooster crows