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My Heart is in Montana

My heart is in Montana, in her forests evergreen
Sitting with my lover by a stream
And a fisher casts his fly out in a sparkling evening
Pulls a cutthroat to pay for patient waiting
Don’t you think it’s sad to see them go?
Don’t you think it’s sad that there are metals in the snow
That taint the water and all who feel its flow?

My heart is in Montana, where they’re drilling through the snow
To find the oil that’s waiting down below
To ship to market and to burn it into tiny particles
That trap the sunlight and make the melting go.
Sad to think they’re leaving don’t you know?
Sad to think they’re melting, all those glaciers and the snow
And leave the passes bare where the bighorn used to go.

My heart is in Montana, where the cattle ranchers vote
To keep the wolves down and businesses afloat.
I’m not saying it’s not tragic, if not saying it is right
To let those wolves go down without a chance to fight.
Don’t you think it’s hard to see them go?
Don’t you think it’s hard when all those hunters lay them low?
If there was a way I sure wish I could know.

My heart is in Montana, at the Independence Mine,
Where they came to find their silver and their gold,
Where they washed away the hillsides with an acid-spraying hose,
And left a ghost town in the valley down below.
Don’t you know it’s growing back again?
Don’t you know it’s coming, if you’d only let it in?
Not sure I know just where I might begin.

My heart is in Montana, with her people fair and free.
They are the kindest people you can meet.
Where there’s farmers and there’s loggers and there’s miners and there’s them
That help the healing and break that cycle’s spin.
Don’t you think it’s possible to sin?
Don’t you think it’s so, yet find a new place to begin,
To help the healing and to break that cycle’s spin?

My heart is in Montana, where the aster meadows grow
Among the cabins that have fallen in the snow.
Among the peaks that stand for ages in their mellow alpine glow
The rust among the flowers growing old.
Don’t you think it’s sad to see them go?
Don’t you think it’s sad, all those people who said no,
And left Montana for the cities down below?

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from Where the Lone Pine Stands, released November 5, 2015
lyrics & music: d. schramm
guitar & vocals: d. schramm
banjo & backup vocals: r. wittke

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Two guys, a guitar, a banjo, and a dobro, just sitting by the river.

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