i’ll take you across

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About this song

country rock, Texas country, road song, baritone country vocals

Lyrics

[Intro - Acoustic guitar and pedal steel, building into full band]

[Verse 1 - Male Baritone, warm storyteller voice]
I'll take you across if you've got the time
Start here in the Hill Country where the limestone climbs
Cedar in the morning and the live oaks low
A creek bed cuts through where the wildflowers grow

[Verse 2]
We'll roll out east where the pines stand tall
Where the air gets heavy and the rain'll fall
The red dirt road and the lazy bayou
The kind of green you don't believe is true

[Verse 3]
Then south to the Gulf where the water runs brown
And the seagulls argue and the rigs ride down
The smell of the salt and the smell of the crude
And a basket of shrimp at a roadside food

[Chorus]
And the windmills turn from horizon to horizon
And the weather rolls in and the sky keeps risin'
There's a thousand miles of road and a thousand more to find
And every one of 'em is Texas, every one of 'em is mine

[Verse 4]
Back inland through the brush and the mesquite low
Where the cattle and the heat and the rattlers know
The Rio Grande running thin and slow
And the dust on your boots when you stop for go

[Verse 5]
Then up to the city where the freeway hums
San Antonio shines and the river runs
A taco truck open and a neon sign
And a million people living on a common line

[Chorus]
And the windmills turn from horizon to horizon
And the weather rolls in and the sky keeps risin'
There's a thousand miles of road and a thousand more to find
And every one of 'em is Texas, every one of 'em is mine

[Instrumental Break - Fiddle and pedal steel, driving rhythm]

[Verse 6]
Now west to the plains where the wind don't quit
And the windmills count every minute of it
Cotton and oil and a flat blue sky
And a freight train running like it's never gonna die

[Verse 7]
Down to Big Bend where the rock turns red
And the Marfa lights dance in the dark overhead
Ocotillo and silence and a star-thick night
And the kind of empty that feels like right

[Verse 8]
Up to the Guadalupes where the mountains stand
The highest point in all the land
A hawk on the wind and the canyon below
And the cool air comin' off the high meadow

[Bridge - Slower, acoustic and voice]
And I'll bring you home to the Hill Country light
To the porch and the dogs and the cricket night
The same creek runnin' that you started on
And a quiet that says you've been somewhere and gone

[Final Chorus - With full harmonies]
And the windmills turn from horizon to horizon
And the weather rolls in and the sky keeps risin'
There's a thousand miles of road and a thousand more to find
And every one of 'em is Texas, every one of 'em is mine

[Outro - Pedal steel and acoustic, fading]
Every one of 'em is Texas
Every one of 'em is mine

[End]

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