Bill Miller Tumbleweed Lyrics

Tumbleweed Lyrics

Far across the Mississippi and out on the open plains 



In an Oklahoma cow town where the sky begins to rain 



In a dusty run-down honky tonk sits a drifting tumbleweed 



Thumbing through some magazine that he can't even read 







Now tumbleweed remembers how the west was won and lost 



The homestead act and the dust bowl, everybody paid the cost 



And the great white father promised to treat his children all the same 



Back when Indian territory was Oklahoma's name 







Oh tumbleweed keep rollin', he just roams from town to town 



It ain't easy for a half-breed kid to try and settle down 



Tumbleweed keep rollin', he can't find no place to rest 



Yeah the desert wind blows tumbleweed like some spirit of the west 







Well his boot heals tap in time to an old flat top guitar 



And he's a guitar local hero and he sings straight from the heart 



And his tip jar just a jungle of worn old dollar bills 



He makes his rent and grocery in the local bar and grill 







When he starts to picking that old guitar you know the people turn and stare




When he starts to sing the songs he wrote wells there's magic in the air 



Cause his song can heal your wounded heart, he can set you spirit free 



He can raise you hopes to be the very best that you can be 







Oh tumbleweed keep rollin', he just roams from town to town 



It ain't easy for a half-breed kid to try and settle down 



Tumbleweed keep rollin', he can't find no place to rest 



Yeah the desert wind blows tumbleweed like some spirit of the west 







So if you cross the Mississippi, you head out on the open plain 



And you pass through Oklahoma and the sky begins to rain 



And you feeling kind of rootless, you can't find no place to rest 



Just remember tumbleweed, he's the spirit of the west 







Oh the desert blows old tumbleweed like some spirit of the west