Too Good To Lose

Ezra Meeker was a pioneer who first traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man in 1852. Fifty years later he would make the trip, again and again, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth, and worked to memorialize the Trail.

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Words and Music © 2022 by Geoffrey Clarfield

Too Good To Lose

I've seen the young men

In their saddles

It means a lot to me

And if they live

They’ll see their children

Live in mansions by the sea

They don’t live

In heaven

And it’s hard to live

On land

We can’t live on gold

When we’re living hand to hand

You can’t get there

On a train

Or by horse beneath the rain

If the purple sage

Is high

Then your carriage

Won’t get by

When you reach

The wide horizon

See the rainbows

In the sky

It is said

A star may guide you

When you move on

By and by

And if a posse

Comes to this town

You can tell them

Where I’m found

I can serve

A drink or two

Three or four

If they're with you

So let them

Bring their wagons

Let them camp

Out in the sun

Hope the strong ones

And the weak ones

See just how far

They have to run

Now I've been

Long gone

I've been runnin' on the loose

I have lived

A life so sad

And I know

That that is bad

So let me try

And love you

Let me help you

Break the noose

I won't let a posse

Come this far

Because you're far too good

To lose