Covered Wagon
They were built in Missouri from the oak and the pine
And they creaked and groaned but still they made good time.
Though the axles kept breaking and the canvas was tore,
Every man turned his back on his home forevermore.
Across that mighty mountain,
That wide-open plain,
Oh, I’ll need you, covered wagon,
To keep me from the rain.
They were driven by buckskin-covered men with a will
And they crossed that plain and then they climbed that hill.
There were some fought and struggled, there were some left their bones,
But they built them a continent of sticks and stones.
Across that mighty mountain,
That wide-open plain,
Oh, I’ll need you, covered wagon,
To keep me from the rain.
When the snow-covered Rockies broke the spokes in the wheels,
Why they pushed and pulled and then they ate cold meals.
Pioneer men and women lie a-buried in sod
Yet they stood by their rifles and their trust in God.
Across that mighty mountain,
That wide-open plain,
Oh, I’ll need you, covered wagon,
To keep me from the rain.
‘Twas the brave pioneer that made this land what it is,
Did the mighty deeds that he claimed was his.
Then that old covered wagon really made history
For it carried the ancestors of you and me.
Across that mighty mountain,
That wide-open plain,
Oh, I’ll need you, covered wagon,
To keep me from the rain.
That old covered wagon,
That creaking, groaning wagon,
That prairie boat with canvas coat
That kept us from the rain.
From the rain.
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