Echo Canyon - Alice Wallace

The moon hardly shines down in Echo Canyon

It just hangs around about an hour a night

In a sliver of sky 'tween narrow horizons

I don’t even notice as it passes me by

The crickets are calling across Echo Canyon

A chilly wind moans to join in the song

Then a coyote howls out there in the distance

I ain’t goin nowhere so I’ll just sing along

Ho-ooh-ah Ooh-ah Ooh-ooh, ho-da-lo-oh-de-hee

Ooh Lo-Ooh Lo-Ooh

Well I took a ride out toward Echo Canyon

Like I do on those days when the blues get me down

Went lookin' to find my lost inspiration

Where there’s nothin' but nothin' for miles around

A rattlesnake on the rim along Echo Canyon

Spooked my sweet mare, and I ended up thrown

Now day’s turned to night down here at the bottom

Where I’m shiverin' and singin', just tryin' to keep warm

Ho-ooh-ah Ooh-ah Ooh-ooh, ho-da-lo-oh-de-hee

Ooh Ooh Ooh

And now the air has gone still here in Echo Canyon

As that cold lonesome feeling takes hold of my heart

And there is only the sound of some poor lost soul singin'

And a coyote’s answer somewhere in the dark

Ho-ooh-ah Oooh-ah Oooh-ooh, ho-da-lo-oh-de-hee-de-hee

Ooh Ooh-do Ooh-ooh-de-ooh-de-hee

Ooh Ooh Ooh

Ooh Lo-Ooh Lo-Oooh

Loo-ooh Lo-Ooh Lo-Ooh