Emigrant, MT Songtext
von Danny Schmidt

Emigrants, emigrants
Dusty as the road
Thankful as Wyoming′s plains
To find the Yellowstone

Sit and watch her carve a slice
Of paradise below
Making of the story as she knows
Picture window, picture frame
Proscenium display
Big sky, no wonder why
The Crazy Mountains stay
The osprey and the prairie dogs
They do their dance all day
Spirited and spirited away


I lay my line at suppertime
I throw my fly again
The mountain lifts, the river sifts
The snowmelt from its hands
Unlicensed and undisciplined
And humbled in the end
I left the fish for bears and better men

Cherry pancakes, pecan pie
A table set for four
And company like paint pot steam
Colorful and warm
Fireworks they light the Fourth
Level with our eyes
Wildfire country kind of skies

Fresh to full, the moon's refilled
To lead the night′s parade
And far more stars than I have words
Or wishes I could make

There's church and then there's Chico Springs
The river down to pray
But me, I′m just a Teton man I′d say


Emigrants from emigrants
Home and back to home
With memories and all our needs
Packed up as we drove
Thank you very, thank you much
And thank you awful so
For Montana and the taste of Yellowstone
For Montana and the taste of Yellowstone