Standing outside watering the grass
A fellow stops by and asks me
Hey can you tell me, is there anyplace I can swim?
‘Cause I’m hot and I’ve got to cool down
Oh yeah, I know a great place
It’s beautiful, it’s a drive, though
Back out and turn around, head down
my street to the corner
Take a right and make your way to the freeway, over yonder
Make a left and get onto I-5 South
If it’s your lucky day you’ll see the mountain is out
Over Lake Union to I-90 East, there you go now
Goodbye, Seattle
Take her over Snoqualmie Pass and
head off to Yakima
You might want to top off your gas
Before the Blue Mountains of Oregon
Go east to Boise, she’s a real fine town
One time I was stuck there, I didn’t mind breaking down
Now on to Utah, for a long ways you won’t see a thing
Cool in the water and clearly
alive
It’s the think I’ll remember on the day I die
Diving in and coming up wet in Barton Springs
Roll on to Bountiful, if you go
there you got to say her name
Just past Provo you want to get off the main highway
Pretty soon you’re gonna see some little red-rock towns
I like ‘em all, but Moab is the one I first found
On to Colorado, my boyhood dream
When you’re raised in Texas like
I was
You yearn to see the mountains
Where I lived as a young kid there was nothing
But dirt and sky around us
On through Durango and the Western
Slope
Pagosa to Chama into New Mexico
To Arroyo Hondo and the Rio Grande
Now, the point of this story is to
get you to Austin town
Once you get through Abilene
It’s kind of hard to not hold the pedal down
If I were you I’d go ahead and get my britches off
‘Cause when you see that water you’re gonna want no time lost
Luminescent waters, a young man’s dream
The pretty blue-green waters of Barton Springs
Cool in the water and clearly
alive
It’s the thing I’ll remember on the day I die
Diving in and coming up wet in Barton Springs
About a month later I was standing
outside watering the grass The same fellow stops by and tells me Man, I
loved that place but hey, I was wondering Is there anywhere I can get a
cold beer? ‘Cause I’m hot and tired and I’ve gotta cool down Oh
yeah, I know a great place How much gas you got? Ever been to Alaska?
How about Whitefish, Montana? Can I go? Me and my dog, we’d love to go
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