Alice Wallace - Echo Canyon Lyrics

The moon hardly shines
Down in Echo Canyon
Just hangs around
About an hour a night
In a sliver of sky
Between narrow horizons
It don't even notice
As it passes me by

The crickets are callin
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 just sing along

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
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 shivering and singing
Just tryin to keep warm

The air has gone still
Here in Echo Canyon
As that cold lonesome feelin
Takes hold of my heart
And there is only the sound
Of some poor lost soul singin'
And the coyotes' answer
Somewhere in the dark