I Remember Joe

Oh, your golden lights of America,<br>Joseph sought your prairies and your buffalo.<br>And the humming of the rails down through<br>Kansas, they brought Joseph in from Baltimore.<br>The Cavalry, the Indians, and an old dan<br>were his only friends.<br>Then the old dan died and the Indians` plight<br>made the Cavalry young Joe`s enemy.<br><br>Oh, the outlaws spilled the blood across the<br>Kansas plains back in the `70s.<br>Joseph took a badge for America<br>to defend you from your fantasies.<br>Joseph wore that badge across the Kansas<br>prairies to save the railroads.<br>But the heroes that we made, well, they were<br>ruthless soldiers who`d kill for gold.<br><br>With a broken heart for the frontier plains,<br>Joseph sat a-rocking in his front-porch swing.<br>That old tin badge is tarnished now,<br>you know it was just a young man`s dream.<br>And old man`s tales are hard to reach when you<br>don`t believe in your American Dream.<br>The Indians, the buffalo and old Joe Mason,<br>they died from memory.<br><br>Oh, your golden lights of America,<br>Joseph sought your prairies and your buffalo.<br>And the humming of the rails down through<br>Kansas, they brought Joseph in from Baltimore.<br>The Cavalry, the Indians, and an old dan . . .<br>forsaken old man.<br><br>Oh, your golden lights of America.