G
He sits in the kitchen in the early evening light
       D
With a poster on the wall about the garden of life
           G
She brings bread to the table and sits down at his side
      D                            D7
After forty years he still touches her as if she were a bride


CHORUS:
   C   D        G    
On Red Mountain Ranch 
    C        D          G
The red dirt fills your clothes
    C                    G       Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
    D                     G
And rise when the rooster crows


 
On hot summer days, feedback ringing through the trees
        D
There's songs of life and freedom, kids playing in the creek
       G
He's a potter and a dreamer, he's a builder and a sage
          D                       D7
She's his roots and his direction, his partner on the stage


CHORUS:
   C   D        G    
On Red Mountain Ranch 
    C        D          G
The red dirt fills your clothes
    C                    G       Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
    D                     G
And rise when the rooster crows


 
There's sheep and cows and chickens, fat cats running loose
  D
A dog hanging 'round the house, a pony named Hay-soos
G
Rattlesnake alliance, mourning doves and hawks
D                            D7
Stars that fill the night sky and castles made of rocks


CHORUS:
   C   D        G    
On Red Mountain Ranch 
    C        D          G
The red dirt fills your clothes
    C                    G       Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
    D                     G
And rise when the rooster crows


 
It's written on their faces like the truth carved on a stone
  D
A love for all god's children, the growing and the grown
G
Smiles that take you in, food that feeds the heart
D                            D7
Words that reach to hold you when the miles keep you apart


CHORUS:
   C   D        G    
On Red Mountain Ranch 
    C        D          G
The red dirt fills your clothes
    C                    G       Em
You go to sleep with the setting sun
    D                     G
And rise when the rooster crows